memorialize
verb (used with object)
to commemorate.
memorializes
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present tense formof memorialize (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Hargitay has had a great run recently: Earlier this month, she won two Emmys for her self-directed 2025 documentary, “My Mom Jayne,” which memorializes her mother, Jayne Mansfield.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
Uche Okeke memorializes the Aba Women’s War of 1929, one of the first major anticolonial uprisings in Nigeria, with a throng of seething figures, their strength and determination reflected in vigorous brushstrokes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
And near Marsden Wharf, a sidewalk mosaic memorializes the ship and Fernando Pereira.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
Allen stopped by last summer and tried mightily to be the first name on the “rock of fame,” where Nantz memorializes friends who ace the hole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2025
Barlow, Joel, N. W.'s classmate, 4; a classic author, 48; memorializes Congress on copyright laws, 50; his poetry lightly esteemed by N. W., 281.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Horace E. Scudder
