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pilgrimage

[pil-gruh-mij] / ˈpɪl grə mɪdʒ /


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The experience of pilgrimage became a ritual, and there’s a ghostly quality to these pictures.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

In November, we will embark on our annual Amtrak pilgrimage to the Midwest.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

"They had completed their pilgrimage around Mount Kailash and were going through immigration procedures" at the Gyirong border crossing with China when disaster struck, he said.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

The 53-year-old American flew to Nepal after learning that his wife, Jiwan Jyoti, was untraceable while returning from a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash, the sacred peak revered by Hindus and Buddhists.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

In some future installment, a flashback, I shall perhaps recount that pilgrimage through the swamps, a journey into the desert from which I returned broken physically, mentally, and spiritually.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Our bike rides across America since retiring have been epic 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

Starting in the fourth century, pilgrimages were served up by the church as a way for Christians to pay penance for their sins.

From Los Angeles Times May 25, 2026

Because of Charles’s fame, the biggest change at Down was that there were more and more visitors who made pilgrimages to meet him.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

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

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

“I am exceedingly hungry, in very deed,” said Ulenspiegel, “and am pilgrimaging against my will.”

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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