memorialize
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When Abraham Lincoln addressed the assembled crowd at Gettysburg, they had gathered to memorialize the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
Every year, Amicus co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern invite listeners to nominate the Supreme Court’s most egregious behavior, then choose their own “worst of the worst” to memorialize the most ignominious moments.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2026
Staff rush to clean up, then huddle together for group photos to memorialize the evening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
At Image, we often talk about the magazine as a living archive of Los Angeles — a space to capture and memorialize all the vibrant things happening across this city.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
HARRY: Mr. Diggory, as you know, I sympathize with your efforts to memorialize Cedric, but— AMOS: A memorial?
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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Uche Okeke memorializes the Aba Women’s War of 1929, one of the first major anticolonial uprisings in Nigeria, with a throng of seething figures, their strength and determination reflected in vigorous brushstrokes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
But it is her devotion to the craft that the special lovingly memorializes.
From Salon ● May 14, 2025
Inside the creative, caring and controversial website that memorializes the dead.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2024
On Tuesday, after the Jewish parents spoke, Carvalho noted that Holocaust education is part of the curriculum and that many students take part in field trips to the Museum of Tolerance, which memorializes the Holocaust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
For this reason Christmas is an institution which memorializes the best there was in Pagan man.
From The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian
By including himself in such company, he believes he should be memorialized in stone.
From Salon ● May 7, 2026
Their faces are pasted on walls and lampposts across Mexico, and demonstrators regularly hoist banners demanding the return of loved ones whose names are memorialized in chants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
The most practical solution: Community property with right of survivorship or, as a halfway point, a clearly drafted life-estate agreement, ideally memorialized in a postnuptial agreement to fend off any disgruntled stepchildren.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026
Before 2008, he recalls, a clinician’s work was memorialized on paper: scribbled notes, doctor’s orders and thick charts parked at the nursing station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
Arriving to watch them play, Howard was delighted to see that the jockeys had memorialized his generosity by ordering their uniforms in Howard red and white, with the Howard signature triangle on them.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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Throughout his time here, he painted whenever he could, memorializing the lakes, forests and mountains that surrounded him.
From Salon ● May 2, 2026
Although Mr. Edwards’s iconic “Lynch Fragments” series embodied a specific memorializing of the black experience in America, he saw the meaning of his sculpture as universal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
A team from Georgetown University is investigating their deaths at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, a segregated juvenile detention facility in Cheltenham, Maryland, and memorializing them.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
But his brother Craig’s memorializing of him, “Armed Only With a Camera,” is oddly uninvolving, more an excerpted flipbook of Brent’s far-flung assignments than a meaningful portrait of excelling at a dangerous job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
Oppenheimer, writing for the group, dispatched to Washington a dispirited one-page memo on June 16 memorializing their conclusion.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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