memento
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His first book, “Lessons and Carols,” was published in 2023, and his second book, a digital memento mori, is expected in 2026.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
“It’s a memento to a certain period of time,” said Arasheben, whose company is Jason of Beverly Hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
A couple, out for a stroll, asked an AFP journalist to take a photo of them, a memento of a nice date back on their island home.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
His so-called “bone temple” is an actualization of his life philosophy, memento mori, which translates from Latin as “Remember you must die.”
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
This memento is doubly painful, because I don't have Elsbeth anymore, either, because she is gone in a different way.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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And now, all of these years later, you feel ostracized from your remaining family and, more than that, you were left with a few mementoes of those formative years and no inheritance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
She is moved by the sight of the mementoes left by other pilgrims at the foot of the cross and adds Tom and Lizzie’s things to the pile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
Ceara says she feels nostalgic about shopping at Claire's and wishes she'd kept some items as mementoes.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
It may keep mementoes of successes, souvenirs that mark important events, treasured valuable items and things that may seem mundane and trivial to some but give meaning to others.
From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025
She kept her mementoes in there—toys she used to play with, blankets she used to love, odd-looking rocks, pressed flowers, leather-bound journals densely scrawled with her thoughts and questions and pictures and sketches.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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In the end, he left them a few sentimental mementos, some collectibles and old photographs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
Biles has also filled the home with more personal touches, particularly inside her private office, where she has begun displaying mementos from her decorated gymnastics career.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
There were long-out-of-date policies, receipts, family photographs, work mementos and then, undetected at the back of one of the steel grey drawers, was a brown envelope marked 'Everton: Season Ticket Sales'.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
In his office are mementos his parents collected from reporting trips, including propaganda from Saddam Hussein-era Iraq.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 5, 2026
As mementos, visitors stole ears of corn from the field and sawed young fruit trees into pieces of wood.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
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