pilgrim
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Fearful of a future shackled to the home, Charu leaves at 16 to find her way in Bombay, the first of this pilgrim soul’s reinventions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
"After this year, will we be better able to recognise a pilgrim in the visitor, a seeker in the stranger, a neighbour in the foreigner, and fellow travellers in those who are different?"
From Barron's • Jan. 6, 2026
All of them were to get a cut of the pilgrim income from those who came to pray to the saint.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2024
"I have gone from a traitor to a pilgrim in a year. You couldn't ask for a better student, could you?" says Amanda.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2024
If they took a step, Their hooves would Bury the ant, Little pilgrim of crust And fallen bread.
From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto
Vocabulary lists containing pilgrim
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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