dedicatory
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Simon Wiesenthal came here in 1977 for a dedicatory ceremony.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022
One of St. Petersburg’s more flamboyant journalists, Alexander Nekrasov, showed a photo on Instagram of a copy of one of Sokolov’s books, on which the historian had written, “With the dedicatory inscription of a maniac.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2019
The volume is constructed identically to her first, with a dedicatory epistle followed by the translations and an original poem, “The necessitie and benefite of affliction.”
From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2019
The Hayes, which will be renamed if and when a donor steps up to buy the rights, held a dedicatory lighting ceremony Monday morning.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2018
To be sure, there is always the danger of affectation, and the concluding sentences of Mr. Yeats's dedicatory letter to "AE" are pretty close to buncombe.
From The Critical Game by Macy, John Albert
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