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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Motel says more and more people are getting ink that memorializes their fandom, particularly in black and gray realism.
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Marie Lodi, Allure, 29 Mar. 2025
Instead, family members and advocates say officials are rounding up members of an entire nationality without regard for their rights, often picking men with tattoos memorializing soccer teams, family members and their professions ― not dangerous gangs.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
The show has paid tribute to Braugher with a card memorializing him at the end of the eight-part season.
—Peter White, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
Christine Dolen’s family, friends and the South Florida theater community plan to memorialize the veteran Miami Herald theater critic and Artburst Miami arts journalist in the most logical of locations: The theater.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2025
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Marie Lodi, Allure, 29 Mar. 2025
Instead, family members and advocates say officials are rounding up members of an entire nationality without regard for their rights, often picking men with tattoos memorializing soccer teams, family members and their professions ― not dangerous gangs.
—Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
The show has paid tribute to Braugher with a card memorializing him at the end of the eight-part season.
—Peter White, Deadline, 14 Mar. 2025
Christine Dolen’s family, friends and the South Florida theater community plan to memorialize the veteran Miami Herald theater critic and Artburst Miami arts journalist in the most logical of locations: The theater.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Memorialize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorialize. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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