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shrine

[shrahyn] / ʃraɪn /


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A bronze shrine in the west wall suited what President Calvin Coolidge would later call “a great spiritual document.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

In Iraq's holy city of Najaf, the majestic shrine of Imam Ali stands quiet, its vast courtyards no longer echoing with the multilingual whispers of pilgrims from before the Middle East war.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

"Friday prayer is an obligation for us, but performing it at Al-Aqsa is something entirely different," said Sharif Mohammad, 39, referring to the site’s status as Islam's third-holiest shrine.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

The village where the attack took place in is a predominantly Shiite village and has a Shiite Muslim shrine that many people visit daily to visit and pray, Muttaqi said.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

He felt all those nonwinning awards would be “a shrine to mediocrity,” and such a thing was beneath me.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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