commemorate
Example Sentences
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Through the week, Bondi's surf volunteers have been commemorated as some of the heroes of the shooting.
From BBC
On Sunday night Jews celebrated the beginning of Hanukkah, which commemorates the Israelite victory in 167 B.C. over the Seleucids and their effort to impose their Greek identity on the people of Israel.
Katherine Pierce, 26, tell me she's driven from Tahmoor, about an hour and a half away, to commemorate those who died.
From BBC
The chief rabbi told the Today programme that the festival of Hanukkah commemorates the defiance of a small band of Jews some 2,150 years ago who were targeted by Emperor Antiochus Epiphanes.
From BBC
To commemorate the political scientist James C. Scott, who died in 2024, I reached for my copy of his “The Art of Not Being Governed.”
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