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memorial

[muh-mawr-ee-uhl, -mohr-] / məˈmɔr i əl, -ˈmoʊr- /




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The memorial match is held every year in her memory and also to promote female health, a cause her sister Colette Risely said would have been close to Stewart's heart.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

He said that the memorial was important "to remember what happened and to make sure it never happens again".

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

In 2017, it was more low-key, with the brothers creating a memorial garden for her and visiting the gates of Kensington Palace to look at the flowers placed by members of the public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Last September, a suspect stripped a bronze marker from a beachside memorial for lifeguard pioneer Vincent G. Moorhouse, who is credited with modernizing the local lifeguard service, in Huntington Beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

There was so much to mourn, and so much to be proud of, so many reasons to be at this memorial.

From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin

The survivors carved their unspeakable grief into the landscape with the erection of thousands of war memorials.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

On college campuses, the day is now often observed through academic discussions instead of memorials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

But 25 years on, I’ve learned that grief doesn’t live only in memorials and names read aloud once a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

They encounter what happened through photographs, documentaries, memorials, classroom lessons and stories told by people who were alive on that day.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Anglicans too went in for uttered miliury flags, and war memorials of other kinds.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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