pilgrim
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Irshad Ahmed, a 49-year-old pilgrim, told AFP he was staying at a hostel in Tehran when he saw missiles being fired nearby.
From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026
Historians can argue otherwise, but not “convincingly” for this pilgrim.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Simone Collins is sitting in her 18th century cottage in Pennsylvania, dressed in a black pilgrim pinafore with a wide collar, bouncing one of her four children on her lap.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 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
He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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