pilgrim
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“I’m just a weary pilgrim trying to find what feels like home,” she sings.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
The treks flourished throughout the Middle Ages, faded, then rebounded from a niche spiritual journey to a global escape hatch; in 2025, the pilgrim office handed out 530,000 certificates of completion, or compostelas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
"I can't believe I've finished the hajj rituals," Iraqi pilgrim Adnan Hamad, 58, told AFP, as his daughters in white robes, or abayas, looked on.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Every person is a pilgrim on their own grief journey.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
After a while he said: ‘Look, Mick! You see that branch of the tree? Don’t it look like a pilgrim forefather lying down with a gun in his hand?’
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
But 583 foreigners remain unaccounted for, many of them pilgrims who had spent months preparing for the demanding trek around Mount Kailash.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The foundation has provided identifying details to authorities, including distinctive snake-shaped rings and pendants worn by many pilgrims.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Foreign diplomatic missions were expecting heavy traffic of pilgrims this year, including Indian-Americans, according to a U.S. diplomat in the region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Among those at the Chinese immigration facility was a group of 77 pilgrims associated with the Isha Foundation, returning from Mount Kailash.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
I have many pen pals: tourists, Holy Land pilgrims, and students who join pen pal programs to see the world through other people’s words.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
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