pilgrim
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We pitched our tent beside the high-school track and watched buses of Ragbrai participants pull into town, reminding us of the pilgrim busloads in Shikoku.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
“I’m just a weary pilgrim trying to find what feels like home,” she sings.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
The city's many pilgrim tour companies sit idle.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
Every person is a pilgrim on their own grief journey.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
Then our group reached the clerks who examined each passport and suitcase carefully and nodded to the pilgrim to move on.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
That night, in a hostel catering to pilgrims, I redid our GPS map to join the Henro route the next day in Kochi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Somewhere around Temple 31, Chikurin-ji, where pilgrims pray to a deity of mental clarity, it became clear: We should rewrite our whole map to add more of the Henro into our 1,250-mile trip.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
More than 800 foreigners from at least 34 countries are among the missing, including tourists and pilgrims, in both Nepal and Tibet in China.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 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
The bald pilgrims in Beena Mol began to sing another bhajan.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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