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  • verb US Third-person singular simple present indicative form of memorialize.

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  • "memorializes" profiles of deceased users at the request of friends and family members.

    Technology Technology 2009

  • "memorializes" profiles of deceased users at the request of friends and family members.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2009

  • Tisha B'Av is literally the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av and it memorializes the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 by the Romans.

    Lev Raphael: Bookstore Bingo: Author's Edition Lev Raphael 2011

  • And of course it memorializes one of the most famous moments in cinema, when Stallone as Rocky caps off his workout regime by dashing up the steps of the great museum.

    William Bradley: Ali, Frazier, Jackson, Stallone: Of Image, Race, Politics, and Myth William Bradley 2011

  • Tisha B'Av is literally the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av and it memorializes the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in the year 70 by the Romans.

    Lev Raphael: Bookstore Bingo: Author's Edition Lev Raphael 2011

  • We must not forget that it is our own age that officially memorializes Saint Mary Magdalene as a disciple; it was the ‘Dark Ages’ that honored her as a preacher and apostle of the apostles.

    Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

  • The museum's useful audio tour memorializes him with a few lines of "Dark Rosaleen," his poem analogizing Ireland to a woman.

    Celebrating the Mordant, Witty and Darkly Romantic Julia M. Klein 2011

  • With an engaging, unflappably wry humor, Obmascik memorializes their wild and crazy exploits and, along the way, interweaves an entertaining smattering of science about birds and their own strange behavior with a brief history of other bird-men and - women; turns out even Audubon pushed himself beyond the brink when he was chasing and painting the birds of America.

    Steve Martin Replaces Dustin Hoffman in the Birdwatching Comedy The Big Year | /Film 2010

  • A mile and a half southeast, toward Smithfield, a plaque memorializes William Wallace—hanged, drawn and quartered here in 1305.

    A Guide to (Aargh! Chop!) Merrie England Joe Queenan 2011

  • We must not forget that it is our own age that officially memorializes Saint Mary Magdalene as a disciple; it was the ‘Dark Ages’ that honored her as a preacher and apostle of the apostles.

    Anti-Catholicism 2009

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