memorialize
verb (used with object)
to commemorate.
has memorialized
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present perfectof memorialize (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The family life she has memorialized onstage was short on boundaries and weighted with despair.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
The prize for nonfiction went to Clint Smith’s “How the Word Is Passed,” which examines the way America has memorialized and distorted the legacy of slavery.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
Dr. Hall has memorialized modern figures, such as the broadcaster David Frost, but he seems reluctant to stray too much into the territory of popular culture.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2018
Just as important, Flint captures the mundane yet mythic horror of the case that has memorialized it in the annals of New York City crime.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2017
Moreover he has given the country to understand that Li Yuan-hung has memorialized the Ching House that many evils have resulted from republicanism and that the ex-emperor should be restored to save the masses.
From The Fight For The Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale
