as in commemorating
serving to preserve the memory of a person, thing, or an event
a memorializing book on the sinking of the Titanic
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as in celebrating
to be a memorial of
at the entrance to the park stands a statue memorializing the novelist Sir Walter Scott
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Recent Examples of memorializing
Joey Skladany, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2025
Unfortunately the crying photos still made it into the family photo album, memorializing the tears for posterity.
—Sara Rowe Mount, Parents, 28 Nov. 2025
Elucid and billy woods trade verses sniping the quick rise of artificial intelligence, memorializing their neighborhoods, and trying to slow the roll of soul-crushing news.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2025
Louisiana's governor on Monday night called on the state's largest university to erect a statue memorializing Charlie Kirk.
—Anders Hagstrom, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Cantwell, the lead sponsor of the Democratic college sports reform bill called the SAFE Act, followed up on Friday by memorializing her Knight Commission remarks in a letter sent to each of the Big Ten school presidents, warning them away from the temptation of Wall Street.
—Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 10 Oct. 2025
And yet, Lightfoot’s stubborn purity is surely why listeners recognize his sincerity in memorializing such a tragic event.
—John U. Bacon, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
Ask him to produce all loan repayment schedules and any other documents memorializing the loans.
—Wendy Hickey, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
Stewart shared a post on Instagram memorializing Osbourne the day his death was announced.
—Mirna Alsharif, NBC news, 5 Aug. 2025
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No vacation to Florida is complete without memorializing it in a way that nods to the unique locale, brimming with aquatic wildlife from practically every coastal vantage point.
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The Phish frontman opened the show, one of three gigs commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead.—
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Sabrina Carpenter is kicking off the New Year by commemorating her recent looks in an Instagram photo dump.—
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There are usually about 20 to 25 commemorative stamp issues each year.—
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Most of the vehicles in the commemorative excursion had nowhere near the ability to keep that kind of pace.—
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The family has also not been permitted to hold mourning ceremonies, and several mosques in Marivan were reportedly disallowed from hosting memorial services.—
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For years, the official commemoration took place at a memorial north of Port-au-Prince in Titanyen, where many of the 350,000 killed are buried in mass graves.—
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“Memorializing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/memorializing. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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