commemorate
verb
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When you remember something, you are mindful of it. It's appropriate, therefore, that commemorate and other related memory-associated words (including memorable, memorial, remember, and memory itself) come from the Latin root memor, meaning "mindful." English speakers have been marking the memory of important events with commemorate since the late 16th century.
Examples of commemorate in a Sentence
David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2024
Bertinelli recently commemorated an exciting occasion: being six months alcohol-free.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2024
To commemorate the history of WCBS 880, the station will air a retrospective from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 22.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2024
There, two grown siblings and their families gather, somewhat uneasily, to commemorate the anniversary of the death of their elder brother, who 15 years earlier drowned while saving a local boy from the ocean.
—Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
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“Commemorate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commemorate. Accessed 7 Sep. 2024.
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