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memorial

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




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It is a living memorial to a president who was taken from us too soon, a man who had the audacity to aim for the moon before the science existed to get us there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The memorial at the Highland Park campus is planned for 5 p.m., according to an Instagram post, which asks the community to bring flowers and anything else to remember the student.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“No one will ever dictate which heroes we should honor,” he said in June as he unveiled plans for a memorial complex in Kyiv listing the names of Ukrainian resistance fighters such as the UPA.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

He said the memorial was important to keep the scandal "in the public consciousness" and to honour those who died.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

On the plane to Lima for Father Jack’s memorial service, Farmer wondered to Ophelia what he could have done to save his good friend.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Words can only explain so much about what it is like to visit these memorials, or to touch them.

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

In parts of Serbia and Bosnia's Serb statelet, Republika Srpska, Mladic is still lauded as a hero, and his death was greeted with vigils and memorials overnight.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Confederate monuments, memorials, and imagery proliferated throughout the South during the Civil Rights Era.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson




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