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memorialize

[muh-mawr-ee-uh-lahyz, -mohr-] / məˈmɔr i əˌlaɪz, -ˈmoʊr- /


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“We Are Charlie Kirk,” an A.I. song originally meant to memorialize him, was immediately reappropriated as a joke.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

In most cases, participants only filed “brief” statements about their trips, but otherwise failed to “document or memorialize key takeaways, practical applications, or potential benefits to the Department,” the report said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026

Self-proclaimed Parrot Heads—who still slap stickers on the building and leave flip-flops, salt shakers and other assorted memorabilia outside as a shrine to sunny good times—want instead to memorialize the studio forever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 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

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

An FBI document memorializes a 2006 conversation in which Mr. Trump phoned the Palm Beach, Fla., police chief to say he knew about Epstein’s and Ms. Maxwell’s behavior and thought it vile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

And near Marsden Wharf, a sidewalk mosaic memorializes the ship and Fernando Pereira.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

But it is her devotion to the craft that the special lovingly memorializes.

From Salon ● May 14, 2025

On the one hand, it memorializes an origin of Bachardy’s intense commitment to portraiture as an artistic genre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025

The occurrence of a fish and a ring on the arms of the city of Glasgow memorializes a legend in which we find the same singular combination of circumstances.

From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various

The T1D Fund under its reconstituted board said in response that the LLC amendment “simply memorialized existing practice dating back to the fund’s inception rather than creating new signing authority.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

President Reagan had just been elected, consumerism was back in vogue and a new wave of Hollywood films memorialized “a sleek city defined by these noirish neon nights and these bright, intense, colorful days.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Moncks Corner Mayor Thomas Hamilton Jr. also memorialized the Lowcountry singer, writing on Facebook that his family was “heartbroken” to hear about the accident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026

He’s memorialized in corridos, or Mexican folk ballads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 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

El-Sayed’s campaign had already released a video condemning and memorializing 9/11 that morning.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Throughout his time here, he painted whenever he could, memorializing the lakes, forests and mountains that surrounded him.

From Salon ● May 2, 2026

Writer Douglas Kearney illuminates it strikingly in the curatorial statement etched into a back wall in “sister dreamer”: “… it’s the sacred phenomenon of luxe space that remembers without memorializing, celebrates without eulogizing. An anti-tomb.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

“Death of the Last Cowhand” here is a touching poem by rancher Linda Hasselstrom memorializing the last days of a nonagenarian cowboy who literally died with his boots on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 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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