memorialize
Americanverb
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to honour or commemorate
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to present or address a memorial to
Other Word Forms
- memorialization noun
- memorializer noun
- unmemorialized adjective
Etymology
Origin of memorialize
Example Sentences
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But his brother Craig’s memorializing of him, “Armed Only With a Camera,” is oddly uninvolving, more an excerpted flipbook of Brent’s far-flung assignments than a meaningful portrait of excelling at a dangerous job.
From Los Angeles Times
The most practical solution: Community property with right of survivorship or, as a halfway point, a clearly drafted life-estate agreement, ideally memorialized in a postnuptial agreement to fend off any disgruntled stepchildren.
From MarketWatch
Before 2008, he recalls, a clinician’s work was memorialized on paper: scribbled notes, doctor’s orders and thick charts parked at the nursing station.
In most cases, participants only filed “brief” statements about their trips, but otherwise failed to “document or memorialize key takeaways, practical applications, or potential benefits to the Department,” the report said.
From Los Angeles Times
The next day, Epstein emailed the group appearing to memorialize a phone conversation he had with Cohen about the idea of a new investment fund and Gates’s potential involvement and level of support.
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