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memorial

[muh-mawr-ee-uhl, -mohr-] / məˈmɔr i əl, -ˈmoʊr- /




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Fellow delivery workers built a memorial outside the grocery store, according to the station.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Von Ferdinand began telling friends that Jett “wasn’t going to make it” and that she wanted to be cremated without any memorial service, Stephan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Burnham visited the Aberfan memorial garden on Monday morning alongside Jeff Edwards, one of the last children to be brought out alive from the wreckage, and Welsh Secretary Stephen Kinnock.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

"I have always felt something sacred here at this park," the 36-year-old told AFP recently, after burning incense near a memorial plaque.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Kainene said on the phone, when he told her that he would be going to Lagos for the memorial at the British High Commission.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

On college campuses, the day is now often observed through academic discussions instead of memorials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

They encounter what happened through photographs, documentaries, memorials, classroom lessons and stories told by people who were alive on that day.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

There are 420 memorials at the 150-acre site, which honours the service and sacrifice of the armed forces, emergency services and other civilian organisations, including the Sands charity's baby loss memorial.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Watch the video above for an inside look at how front-line cash is transforming Ulan-Ude’s impoverished economy—even as cemeteries and war memorials continue to expand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Although there are several memorials to the deaths of these young people in other states, there has been no significant effort on the part of Birmingham and Alabama citizenry to remember these sacrifices appropriately.”

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry


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