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
Another pilgrim who was on the bus, 53-year-old Vijayabhuvaneshwari, said: "We had no choice."
From Barron's ● 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
Every person is a pilgrim on their own grief journey.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
Standing on Mount Arafat had concluded the essential rites of being a pilgrim to Mecca.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Many pilgrims combine the trip with a visit to nearby Lake Manasarovar, whose waters are considered purifying, to pray and make offerings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
For some of the Indian pilgrims at the border, the morning had begun almost casually.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Portraits of several Indian pilgrims -- Hindu devotees on a spiritual journey to Tibet's sacred Mount Kailash -- and an American tourist are also displayed.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
At least 752 people are dead in Nepal, authorities there said, while 2,500 people are missing, many of them pilgrims who were visiting lakes in the area that Hindus and Buddhists consider sacred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
That is where it will one day stand, and pilgrims will be able to come here and worship the pharaoh long after his death.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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