signalize

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It was to signalize the most famed of Miss Peck's exploits that the Peruvian Government in 1908 named the northern peak of Mount Huascaran Cumbre Ana Peck.

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Piece de resistance of Orchestra Conductor Meyer Davis' repertoire was "Moonlight on the Santa Clara," which he composed himself and dedicated to Allan Hoover to signalize the occasion.

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Ray Atherton, Charg� d'Affaires of the U. S. Embassy in London, helped signalize the beginning of the Dawesian regime by saying he would name his newborn daughter Helen Maria, after the most widely publicized expletive.

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Later on, after having stated that most verbs ending in -ize are "nearly all unnecessary and ill-formed," the text pops up with trivializing, signalize, actualize.

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As October 26th, O.S., corresponded to November 5th, N.S., it was ingeniously discovered that the accident was meant to signalize Gunpowder Plot day, though this fell on November 5th, O.S., or November 15th, N.S.

From What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence by Gerard, John