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
Fearful of a future shackled to the home, Charu leaves at 16 to find her way in Bombay, the first of this pilgrim soul’s reinventions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
An avid researcher armed with a camera, Enriquez is both reporter and pilgrim.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025
One pilgrim in St Peter's Square told me she "loved" the Pope not because he was Pope but because he didn't seem like a Pope.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2025
Following closely behind them perhaps there would have strode a professional pilgrim, supporting himself on a stout knobbed staff shod like an alpenstock and weighed down with blessed medals, relics, shells, vernicles and so forth.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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