pilgrimage
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But others want it either partially or completely rebuilt, wary of the risk of turning it into a site for Neo-Nazi pilgrimage at a time when Germany is witnessing the resurgence of the far-right.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
Yet aspiring actors, screenwriters and directors, many of them film school students like Henderson, are still making the pilgrimage to Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Another seven died in a crash on the same pilgrimage route in October 2022.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
We are reminded that Siena, as a major stop on the heavily traveled pilgrimage route from Northern Europe to Rome, frequently received news of phenomena occurring elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
They went toward the Oxford Road, then turned westward through Holborn, stopping a moment to pray at each wayside cross, just as if they had been on a pilgrimage.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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It's similar to what's happening in parts of north India's Himalayan valleys which host major pilgrimages.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Its presence suggests that Lady 56 may have completed one of medieval Europe's most famous pilgrimages, traveling thousands of kilometers across the continent to the western edge of Christian Europe before eventually returning home.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
Our bike rides across America since retiring have been epic pilgrimages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Fans trade tips in online communities and treat new locations as pilgrimages.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
She made thirteen pilgrimages to Mecca, and faithfully prayed five times a day.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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A Chicago native, I have admittedly fond memories of post-Little League hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches, and have pilgrimaged to Buena Park to sample the SoCal outpost.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
Veterans of World War II, many of them centenarians and likely returning to France for one last time, pilgrimaged Tuesday to what was the bloodiest of five Allied landing beaches on June 6, 1944.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024
In avant-garde New York, one of the most pilgrimaged sites has been the “Dream House,” a sensory environment that since 1993 has occupied the third story of a walk-up on Church Street in Lower Manhattan.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2024
He became their fighter and savior, and these mega-fans pilgrimaged to his concert-like rallies.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021
I believe the lamas who pilgrimaged to Buddh-Gaya carried the jewels out of India.
From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Harry Hervey
I returned from vacation just in time to join the pilgrimaging hordes carting cumbersome picnic baskets and enough wine for a few dozen Sicilian weddings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025
Also new is the addition of several specific barbecue trails, from urban adventuring to rural pilgrimaging.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2016
Since the days of the palmers, pilgrimaging to Jerusalem has become less and less devout, until now many people visit the Holy City with no higher motive than curiosity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If I were a stout workman, they would have robbed me of the fruit of three years’ toil by making me go pilgrimaging.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
I was introduced to all the neighbours, to the visitors and the natives, and of course invested with much importance as one who wrote books, had no fear, who even intended pilgrimaging to Jerusalem.
From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham
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