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
To memorialize the young woman, who was known for her loving personality, a street sign was erected declaring a portion of 107th Street to be Amira Nairat Memorial Drive.
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Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025
Parker memorialized her decades on screen as Carrie in a lengthy Instagram tribute shortly after news of the series cancellation broke.
—Ryan Coleman Updated, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2025
In February, advocates reiterated their call at a press conference memorializing the 2018 death of J’Allen Jones, who died after being pepper sprayed, restrained, struck and forcibly moved by as many as nine correction workers.
—Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2025
Hogan’s daughter Brooke Bollea Oleksy, better known by her stage name Brooke Hogan, memorialized her father in a recent social media post.
—Mike Schneider, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
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Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025
Parker memorialized her decades on screen as Carrie in a lengthy Instagram tribute shortly after news of the series cancellation broke.
—Ryan Coleman Updated, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2025
In February, advocates reiterated their call at a press conference memorializing the 2018 death of J’Allen Jones, who died after being pepper sprayed, restrained, struck and forcibly moved by as many as nine correction workers.
—Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 2 Aug. 2025
Hogan’s daughter Brooke Bollea Oleksy, better known by her stage name Brooke Hogan, memorialized her father in a recent social media post.
—Mike Schneider, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for memorialize
commemorate
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The Air Force base and the airport's original name commemorated Charles Linton Williams, an Arizona native who was a first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps.—
Michael Salerno,
AZCentral.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Beckham commemorates their one-year anniversary by sharing a portrait of them nestled in a bathtub together.—
Hanna Lustig,
Glamour,
12 Aug. 2025
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“Memorialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialize. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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