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memento

[muh-men-toh] / məˈmɛn toʊ /


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Turning from one set of images to the other makes for a haunting memento mori—and also serves as an elegant and affecting segue to Ms. Emin’s recent paintings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

A story station inside the theatre will print the stories on eco-friendly paper as a memento, and the recordings will be available worldwide through the Bloomberg Connects app.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

A couple, out for a stroll, asked an AFP journalist to take a photo of them, a memento of a nice date back on their island home.

From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026

An hour passes, but we’re all determined to take a piece of this day home — more than a memento, but proof that we were a part of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

This memento is doubly painful, because I don't have Elsbeth anymore, either, because she is gone in a different way.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

And now, all of these years later, you feel ostracized from your remaining family and, more than that, you were left with a few mementoes of those formative years and no inheritance.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026

She is moved by the sight of the mementoes left by other pilgrims at the foot of the cross and adds Tom and Lizzie’s things to the pile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

Ceara says she feels nostalgic about shopping at Claire's and wishes she'd kept some items as mementoes.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025

It may keep mementoes of successes, souvenirs that mark important events, treasured valuable items and things that may seem mundane and trivial to some but give meaning to others.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025

She kept her mementoes in there—toys she used to play with, blankets she used to love, odd-looking rocks, pressed flowers, leather-bound journals densely scrawled with her thoughts and questions and pictures and sketches.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

In the end, he left them a few sentimental mementos, some collectibles and old photographs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Biles has also filled the home with more personal touches, particularly inside her private office, where she has begun displaying mementos from her decorated gymnastics career.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

It's a trend that has filled TikTok and Pinterest as pupils look for more permanent mementos to be signed by their friends, while online marketplaces like Etsy offer thousands of personalised shirts for a fee.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

In his office are mementos his parents collected from reporting trips, including propaganda from Saddam Hussein-era Iraq.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026

She knew the mementos I had and she’d zeroed in on the fishing lure mentioned in the letter to conjure her story.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool


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