mecca
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His finance minister is left to explain the closing of big projects like Neom, a 105-mile-long city, or the Mukaab, a 1,300-foot cube-shaped skyscraper resembling the Kaaba shrine in Mecca.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
Jim, young and idealistic, is chief mate on a steamer carrying 800 pilgrims from Singapore to Mecca.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
"It is a Mecca of sport in my eyes," adds wing Harry Potter, who moved from England to Melbourne as a 10-year-old.
From BBC • Jul. 23, 2025
At 21, he moved to California, widely known at the time as “the Mecca of RC,” Drake said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2025
Poppy said he was afraid to buy Sitti a bus ticket for the pilgrimage to Mecca, because he really did think she might die soon afterward.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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