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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At least two memorials have been erected in Williams’ honor, including one at the site of the crash and another at her school.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
5 May 2026 -
To say nothing of the notable memorials to O’Neil and Paige at Forest Hills and Calvary Cemetery.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
1 May 2026
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Then there’s blocking the release of the Epstein files and unilaterally spending hundreds of millions on monuments to himself and billions on his personal war with Iran, while calling the issue of affordability a hoax.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
2 May 2026
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Physical spaces have always embodied what societies care about — from those first stone monuments that hunter-gatherers built to demonstrate loyalty to each other and to higher powers.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
1 May 2026
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Finance leaders from BlackRock’s Larry Fink to Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev have displayed enthusiasm for tokenization, a term for representing real-world assets as tokens on the blockchain.—
Jack Kubinec,
Fortune,
6 May 2026
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As a result, Anthropic will allow customers to use more tokens per minute, increasing the amount of work that Claude can take on.—
Rachyl Jones,
semafor.com,
6 May 2026
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“Cenotaphs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cenotaphs. Accessed 10 May. 2026.
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