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“AI is completely transforming the research process,” Madigan said, and in teaching, “the holy grail of learning science has always been the personal tutor, and in many ways, here we are.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Throughout his time, Hibs had a ruinous capacity to concede late goals that checked momentum and made the search for the holy grail of consistency all the harder.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Saudi Arabia issued attack alerts Tuesday for Mecca -- the holy city's first of the Middle East war -- and Jeddah and Taif governorates, before quickly cancelling them.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

The photos humanize Coltrane while intensifying his myth as someone in holy communion with the transcendent.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Then the preacher offered his own holy words.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

No one would call him a minimalist, but his holy of holies is not to allow his productions to eclipse his performers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

But the holiest of holies were the works of Judy Blume, who taught us that people with seemingly enviable lives had problems of their own.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023

Jerusalem was also the site of the holiest of holies of Judaism, the most sacred of spaces where the Temple of Solomon had stood until its destruction by the Romans.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Saudi Arabia is a powerful regional player, considered a leader of the Sunni faith because of its custodianship of Islam’s holies sites and has close ties to the West.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023

But at the wonder in the boy’s eyes she collected herself and asked him who he was, so young and yet seemingly so dedicated to this high service in Greece’s holy of holies.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

“Rich people can get a private beach and others can’t…I don’t pretend to be holier than anybody, I just do have these feelings.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

“When I do it, I'm trying not to be holier than thou in every way that I can. And I fail at that a fair amount.”

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2024

Muir was devastated by its destruction, lamenting, “Dam the Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water tanks the people’s cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has been consecrated by the heart of man.”

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024

For cinephiles, there is no holier pilgrimage than the Cannes Film Festival, which begins today.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2023

“If God gets even half the promises we’ve been laying down, the U.S.A. is going to be holier than the Vatican,” Monaco said.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

Medina, the burial place of the Prophet Mohammed and home to the Prophet's Mosque, is one of Islam's holiest cities alongside Mecca.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Yom Kippur is considered to be the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The leaders of the three majority Sunni Muslim nations signed the agreement at a ceremony in Mecca, home to the holiest site in Islam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

Khamenei was laid to rest at the shrine of Imam Reza, Iran's holiest Shia Muslim site, marking the end of six days of public mourning ceremonies in five cities across Iran and neighbouring Iraq.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

He was halfway through the first line of the Shema, our holiest prayer, and my head stopped hurting.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz