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pilgrimage

[pil-gruh-mij] / ˈpɪl grə mɪdʒ /


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Another seven died in a crash on the same pilgrimage route in October 2022.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The Rev. Canon Jaime Edwards-Acton of St. Stephen’s Hollywood, said the pilgrimage was to bring awareness to the people who have died at Adelanto and other facilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

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 wider campus—known as Leitz Park—is now a pilgrimage destination for fans, with a hotel, two Leica stores and a museum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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

It's similar to what's happening in parts of north India's Himalayan valleys which host major pilgrimages.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

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

This forceful memoir recounts the Waldrop household’s pilgrimages across America’s Holy Spirit-scorched heartland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026

The toy store was followed by brutal pilgrimages to Radio City Music Hall, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Plaza.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

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

They hiked the Alps, drew color sketches, pilgrimaged to classical Greek and Roman sites, and toured buildings by Antoni Gaudi in Spain, including the Basílica de la Sagrada Família.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2017

The Ulysses of the Conference, M. Venizelos, first pilgrimaged to London, saying: "If the Foreign Office is with Greece, what matters it who is against her."

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon

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

If I were a stout workman, they would have robbed me of the fruit of three years’ toil by making me go pilgrimaging.

From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster


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