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monument

[mon-yuh-muhnt, mon-yuh-ment] / ˈmɒn jə mənt, ˈmɒn jəˌmɛnt /


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Jacksonville Jaguars loyalists can pay to have their ashes stored in a monument at the team’s upcoming stadium through a deal with Eternal Fan, the franchise’s “official fan memories partner.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Marsak, who admits to “a fetish for old, lost Los Angeles,” once called the Beaux-Arts hotel a “great gray monument to grinding attrition.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Police detained six activists who had draped Greenpeace protest banners from a monument on Jakarta's central Bundaran HI roundabout on Tuesday morning, before the student marches, according to Jeanny Sirait, a campaigner for the NGO.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

It’s no wonder that, when she meets someone who can bridge that gap, she wants to make a monument of it — be it a business, a marriage, a film or a profession of love.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Thousands of protesters gathered at the base of the monument, many waving banners with antiwar slogans.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Medals, reliefs, funerary monuments, large and small figure sculptures, plus a few utilitarian objects, offer a capsule history of modeling and casting in the Tuscan city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The East Potomac facility, which offers the public affordable green fees near Washington’s famous monuments, has been open for more than a century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Juxtaposing Jim Crow-era Confederate monuments and recent art, “Monuments” challenges white supremacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

It applies to monuments and architecture, but also works of art and books, requiring states to safeguard and respect cultural property and refrain from any actions that might endanger it.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Each is remembered with monuments, memorials, and cities named in his honor.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis


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