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Idioms and Phrases

As a reminder of or memorial to. For example, In memory of Grandma we put flowers on her grave every Easter , or In memory of our happy times here we've planted a little garden . [First half of 1300s]
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Lucy, from Hull, will run her first marathon on Sunday alongside her dad to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Charity in memory of her mother, Clare, who died from cancer when the teenager was nine years old.

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Her dad, Chris, said he was running in memory of his mother Joan, who died from cancer in 2023.

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Ian Russell, chairman of the Molly Rose Foundation - which was set up in memory of his daughter who took her own life aged 14 - said he was "dismayed by the lack of ambition" in the codes.

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The son of John Prescott is running the London Marathon to raise money for dementia research in memory of his father.

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As recently as 2020, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels rang its bells in memory of George Floyd, while Gomez used his regular letter to Angelenos to decry racism as “a blasphemy against God” and urged everyone to “root out the racial injustice that still infects too many areas of American society.”

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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