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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Instagram comment sections are flooded with hearts and flowers; the media memorializes a tragedy.
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Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
Given how much of Old Friends is devoted to memorializing Sondheim, there’s an unspoken but accumulating awareness of how many of those collaborators have been lost in just the past few years: Lavin, Lansbury, Stritch.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025
The coming closure of the Valley's last mission-style Taco Bell inspired one local artist to memorialize the home of the Cheesy Gordita Crunch before it's gone forever.
—Jeremy Duda, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025
Americans are divided on that topic, with 55% saying historical figures that supported the confederacy and racial segregation should not be memorialized in a June 2024 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
Given how much of Old Friends is devoted to memorializing Sondheim, there’s an unspoken but accumulating awareness of how many of those collaborators have been lost in just the past few years: Lavin, Lansbury, Stritch.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025
The coming closure of the Valley's last mission-style Taco Bell inspired one local artist to memorialize the home of the Cheesy Gordita Crunch before it's gone forever.
—Jeremy Duda, Axios, 8 Apr. 2025
Americans are divided on that topic, with 55% saying historical figures that supported the confederacy and racial segregation should not be memorialized in a June 2024 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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“Memorialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialize. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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