as in to commemorate
to be a memorial of
at the entrance to the park stands a statue memorializing the novelist Sir Walter Scott
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Recent Examples of memorialize
When Jones’s own mother died, in early 2023 (not of COVID, but gone nonetheless), Jones’s family memorialized her at the cemetery by adopting a Japanese maple.
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Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Rusting armored vehicles in the Golan Heights memorialize the greatest tank battle since World War II, where at great cost a hundred Israeli tanks held off 800 attacking Syrian vehicles in 1973.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
There are many ways to cope with that grief though, which may include memorializing the pet with their ashes, a tree, a memory box, or an obituary.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
But the bar is now much higher for NASA projects to memorialize anyone, deserving or otherwise.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2025
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Paige Williams, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Rusting armored vehicles in the Golan Heights memorialize the greatest tank battle since World War II, where at great cost a hundred Israeli tanks held off 800 attacking Syrian vehicles in 1973.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
There are many ways to cope with that grief though, which may include memorializing the pet with their ashes, a tree, a memory box, or an obituary.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
But the bar is now much higher for NASA projects to memorialize anyone, deserving or otherwise.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for memorialize
commemorate
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The teenager commemorated the anniversary of his acquittal on X, a week after becoming verified on the platform.—
Jenny Goldsberry,
The Washington Examiner,
26 June 2025
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Hosted by the Hillcrest Business Association, the Spirit of Stonewall commemorates the Stonewall riots of 1969.—
David Bohnet,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 June 2025
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“Memorialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialize. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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