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Debra Tice is commemorating her son’s 41st in Washington without a big party, but still doing what she’s done with persistence and consistency: Pushing.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2022

Queen Elizabeth, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, is commemorating her Platinum Jubilee with four days of celebration from June 2-5.

From Reuters • Jun. 2, 2022

The village, a hamlet in the township of Lestrem near Lille, is commemorating the massacre's 80th anniversary on 27 and 28 May, delayed by two years due to the pandemic.

From BBC • May 28, 2022

She is commemorating this milestone alone, having lost her husband of 73 years, Prince Philip, in April.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2022

That was three hundred years ago, and men have reduced the picture to a sort of diagram that the painter dashes in, in a few minutes, without, it would seem, knowing what he is commemorating.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard