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pilgrimage

[pil-gruh-mij] / ˈpɪl grə mɪdʒ /


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Indian visitors who often visit the ancient temple Muktinath on a Hindu pilgrimage had been asked to fly from Jomson to Pokhara instead of drive down, due to a cut-off road, he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

The shell was also a widely recognized symbol associated with pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

It estimates that Himalayan water underpins roughly 20% of India's GDP, sustaining wheat, rice, tea, hydropower and pilgrimage economies.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Through this English-language edition, translated by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg, a wider circle of readers can now follow Ms. Korsgaard’s quixotic but ultimately rewarding pilgrimage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

She deals in real estate, and she was saving up to make the pilgrimage.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Its presence suggests that Lady 56 may have completed one of medieval Europe's most famous pilgrimages, traveling thousands of kilometers across the continent to the western edge of Christian Europe before eventually returning home.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026

Our Year of the Pilgrimage, we agreed, wasn’t just for epic treks but also because, in retirement, our trips increasingly felt like pilgrimages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

Fans trade tips in online communities and treat new locations as pilgrimages.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

They’re the golden child of the produce aisle, the ingredient that inspires pilgrimages to farmers markets and endless declarations that this is the year we’ll finally grow our own.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

Kings and commoners alike made pilgrimages to this spot to gaze at the conqueror’s unspoiled remains in their golden sarcophagus.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

A Chicago native, I have admittedly fond memories of post-Little League hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches, and have pilgrimaged to Buena Park to sample the SoCal outpost.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024

Veterans of World War II, many of them centenarians and likely returning to France for one last time, pilgrimaged Tuesday to what was the bloodiest of five Allied landing beaches on June 6, 1944.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

In avant-garde New York, one of the most pilgrimaged sites has been the “Dream House,” a sensory environment that since 1993 has occupied the third story of a walk-up on Church Street in Lower Manhattan.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

He became their fighter and savior, and these mega-fans pilgrimaged to his concert-like rallies.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021

Yes, even long ago I wished, and to-day I am still on the way, though I have actually pilgrimaged to Jerusalem in Palestine.

From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham

I returned from vacation just in time to join the pilgrimaging hordes carting cumbersome picnic baskets and enough wine for a few dozen Sicilian weddings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025

Also new is the addition of several specific barbecue trails, from urban adventuring to rural pilgrimaging.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2016

Since the days of the palmers, pilgrimaging to Jerusalem has become less and less devout, until now many people visit the Holy City with no higher motive than curiosity.

From Time Magazine Archive

I was introduced to all the neighbours, to the visitors and the natives, and of course invested with much importance as one who wrote books, had no fear, who even intended pilgrimaging to Jerusalem.

From A Tramp's Sketches by Stephen Graham

They laugh at the Britishers journeying thousands of miles to see this place, just as the English smile at the Americans pilgrimaging to Stratford-on-Avon.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss




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