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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 the indictment, prosecutors portrayed Bolton as driven by his eagerness to memorialize his day-to-day life in Trump’s first term.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

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

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

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

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

Allen stopped by last summer and tried mightily to be the first name on the “rock of fame,” where Nantz memorializes friends who ace the hole.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2025

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

Mr. Kolker has written the biography of a family, making sure that each member is memorialized as a full person before disease enters the picture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

At the time she was laid to rest without a grave maker, but this month officials memorialized Raker by commissioning a permanent marker at her burial site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

In Dokoupil’s first months on the job, the show’s gaffes have been memorialized in news reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

By including himself in such company, he believes he should be memorialized in stone.

From Salon ● May 7, 2026

Next time I will bring the video camera, so his stories will be memorialized forever.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

During the meal, she asked Honda to rehearse with her and her son, Sean Lennon, before they performed at a concert memorializing the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026

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

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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