pilgrim
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“I’m just a weary pilgrim trying to find what feels like home,” she sings.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
I had only ever seen him on Zoom, and although he was tall, which was nice, I tried not to judge his brown cracked-leather buckled pilgrim shoes paired with high-waist Wrangler jeans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Every person is a pilgrim on their own grief journey.
From Slate ● Apr. 23, 2026
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
Which it is just starting to do when my fellow underage Frenchy's pilgrim runs up to me and says, "Who are you?"
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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In late June, footage of a young Muslim man kicking a dog following Hindu pilgrims circulated widely on social media, triggering religious arguments online.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Our revised route blessed us with hundreds of encounters with pilgrims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
The combined toll is 1,384 dead and more than 5,500 missing, including around 800 foreigners, among them tourists and pilgrims.
From Barron's ● 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
In one window, two pilgrims in thick wool breeches and doublets pointed at Plymouth rock while their fellow voyagers looked on from ships in the mural.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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