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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

The next day, Epstein emailed the group appearing to memorialize a phone conversation he had with Cohen about the idea of a new investment fund and Gates’s potential involvement and level of support.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 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

Hargitay has had a great run recently: Earlier this month, she won two Emmys for her self-directed 2025 documentary, “My Mom Jayne,” which memorializes her mother, Jayne Mansfield.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026

The Fitzwilliam Museum’s moving “War Craft” exhibition memorializes a unique popular art, rough-hewn from found objects and made by men killing time in the field or, afterward, as souvenirs of survival.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

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

What’s your take on how punk is reexamined and memorialized today with things like the Punk Museum in Las Vegas, various historic exhibitions, the Ramones’ 50th anniversary, etc?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

The tower was also memorialized in the cartoon “Family Guy” — “which blew all our minds.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

As I recently wrote, he is only concerned with how he will be memorialized.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 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

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

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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