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pilgrimage

noun as in long journey

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“It’s important,” says Hahn, when asked for this thoughts on why Disneyland has not only endured, but remains a pilgrimage for so many.

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“True Nature” is a kind of biographical pilgrimage, and if it never achieves total clarity, we have been reminded by its subject that it is the journey and not the arrival that matters.

Last November, a collection of business, academic and political luminaries made a pilgrimage to a wood-paneled conference room at Harvard University.

They had gone to Saudi Arabia for the Umrah pilgrimage, which is a shorter version of Hajj, the biggest Islamic pilgrimage.

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To no surprise, the nation’s top investment-banking and consulting firms descend on elite schools to find the brightest minds—a pilgrimage that explains why Wall Street is packed with Ivy League alumni.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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