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
Addressing a crowd of an estimated 150,000 people — including much of Lebanon’s political class — Leo described himself as “a pilgrim of hope to the Middle East.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2025
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
“Destined to be inseparable friends, in fact. A courtesan, a pilgrim, a princess, and a bullfighter. Hill House has surely never seen our like.”
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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