memorial
Example Sentences
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A memorial was created where Cole-Graham and her son were struck.
From Los Angeles Times
As they reach old age, the business of burial is poised for an influx of money and new ideas, including biodegradable coffins and holograms of the deceased to display as digital memorials.
Candles and bouquets of flowers have been left by the boarded-up bar's wooden entrance steps, and at a makeshift memorial nearby.
From Barron's
Among the dead were athletes, artists and students whose photographs and brief biographies have since flooded social media, creating a digital memorial of young lives snuffed out under an internet blockade.
After a memorial service in France and a Cuban state funeral, his ashes were interred in Havana.
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