memorialize
verb (used with object)
to commemorate.
memorialization
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a word derived from
memorialize.
Example Sentences
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“The memorialization takes away the kind of difficult questions of how this movement would deal with women who are taking on more transgressive gender roles. Once someone’s a hero, you can leave it at that.”
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2026
“Through those conversations, I began to reflect on how their experiences—and mine—could have been improved, and how memorialization might feel more meaningful,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025
Facebook and Instagram allow users to request an account be deactivated, or a memorialization of the account.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2023
How do we recuperate the breathing, human story of Harlins beneath the dense tangle of press, pop culture, lore, scholarship and memorialization that have grown around her?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
Within a year the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Geographic Society, the Appalachian Mountain Club, and the Sierra Club joined in the memorialization of Congress.
From The Book of the National Parks by Robert Sterling Yard
