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memorialize

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


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Mr. Adams also proved to be the right composer to memorialize America’s saddest day: Sept. 11, 2001, when the nation was brought virtually to its knees.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 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

Staff rush to clean up, then huddle together for group photos to memorialize the evening.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 23, 2025

Since the day she died, I’ve felt that Lucy was only mine to memorialize and that if I faltered, I’d be letting her down in the worst kind of way.

From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy

He was especially moved when he was riding in Pacoima and saw a Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens mural that memorializes the tragic plane crash that killed both Holly and Valens.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

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

Barlow, Joel, N. W.'s classmate, 4; a classic author, 48; memorializes Congress on copyright laws, 50; his poetry lightly esteemed by N. W., 281.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder

According to Long Beach jazz station KKJZ, which also memorialized Johnson’s death, Johnson learned saxophone from his father and attended Westlake School of Music in Los Angeles after his Army service in 1951.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

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

From Salon Apr. 5, 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

An entire childhood memorialized in four nearly irrele­vant photographs.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

From Salon May 2, 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

It’s made them a sight worth memorializing for some.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 1, 2026

Kirk’s death is now a meme, with A.I. parody songs memorializing his legacy and his face plastered onto figures like Shrek.

From Slate Dec. 28, 2025

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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