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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Meanwhile, the Harris campaign staged a rally with Beyoncé in Houston, emphasizing the threat to reproductive rights, and a sombre evening event at the Ellipse, in Washington, D.C., memorializing January 6th and highlighting Trump’s fascism, a word that her campaign had only recently begun to use.
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The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
The dead memorialized by 1970s community advocates included family members and Mexican and Mexican American cultural icons like artist Frida Kahlo, revolutionary figure Emiliano Zapata and farmworkers union leader Cesar Chavez.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
The baller wanted to memorialize his former Texas Tech football coach, the late Mike Leach.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
They’re cast in bronze statues, memorialized on plaques, etched into gravestones, honored through a park, place or building name, smiling up from the laminated cards funeral directors provide at services, or seen in other ways.
—Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 24 Nov. 2024
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The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
The dead memorialized by 1970s community advocates included family members and Mexican and Mexican American cultural icons like artist Frida Kahlo, revolutionary figure Emiliano Zapata and farmworkers union leader Cesar Chavez.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024
The baller wanted to memorialize his former Texas Tech football coach, the late Mike Leach.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
They’re cast in bronze statues, memorialized on plaques, etched into gravestones, honored through a park, place or building name, smiling up from the laminated cards funeral directors provide at services, or seen in other ways.
—Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 24 Nov. 2024
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“Memorialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialize. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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