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Bushwick, the borough’s holy land for warehouse raves and dive bars, voted for Zohran by a 66 point margin.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2025

Perhaps that’s because most of us will never scale the towering rock walls that make Yosemite the holy land for hard-core climbers.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2024

"I never believed I would visit the holy land," said Francisca Teresinha de Jesus Fernandes Farias, 85, from Brazil.

From Reuters • Apr. 10, 2022

Beulahland is, in Christian tradition, where residents of a destroyed city waited to be called, as pilgrims, to the holy land.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2016

Red Wind from over sea, Scourging our holy land!

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)