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 Volunteers were supported by the Boston Public Health Commission and the city Parks and Recreation Department in planting more than 20,000 purple flags in the park to memorialize those who have died in the opioid epidemic. Boston Herald Staff, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025 The two sides on Thursday memorialized an agreement to open exclusive negotiations that officials hope will lead to turning Cal Expo’s defunct horse racing track and grand stand into a new football facility located roughly three miles north of Sacramento State’s campus. Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Their letters were memorialized in the book My Dear Bessie, edited by Simon Garfield. Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025 So how else will Trump be memorialized if not for Mount Rushmore? Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for memorialize
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commemorate
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  • Pride Plays was started as a festival to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, six years ago.
    H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And the day also commemorates that quietly, the ozone layer continues its recovery, monitored by satellites that confirm what the Montreal Protocol set in motion decades ago.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Memorialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialize. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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