as in memorials
a special structure or statue that is built to remind people of a dead person who is buried somewhere else
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Jackson's extended funeral services and public memorials began last week in Chicago, with his body lying in repose for public viewing at Rainbow PUSH Coalition headquarters.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
2 Mar. 2026 -
The bill’s language would exclude celebrations of state and federal holidays or construction and maintenance of national memorials and monuments, which are designated by Congress.—
Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
26 Feb. 2026
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Details throughout the building also pay homage to Pericles, the great Athenian general who was instrumental in the building of the Parthenon and other monuments in the city and whose name graces the street where the hotel is located.—
Robb Report Studio,
Robb Report,
5 Mar. 2026
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About 2 miles north on Central, though, stand more quiet monuments, testaments to Native American resistance and resilience.—
Rebecca 'Becca' Dyer,
AZCentral.com,
5 Mar. 2026
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Our context windows are our lifetimes; our tokens are uncountable.—
Charles Yu,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
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The model also supports context windows up to one million tokens in the API version, allowing systems to process extremely large documents or multi-step workflows without losing context.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Cenotaphs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cenotaphs. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.
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