the Holy Land

noun

: the area in the Middle East where the events of the Bible happened

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Jews did not forget their attachment to the Holy Land after 2,000 years of exile. Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025 God had scattered the Holy Land’s features through this remote part of the Pacific, the elders told me. Pete McKenzie, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025 From the Holy Sepulchre, the Church of the Resurrection, where this year Easter is being celebrated by Catholics and Orthodox on the same day, may the light of peace radiate throughout the Holy Land and the entire world. Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025 Twain’s first big success, The Innocents Abroad (1869), was written while accompanying American pilgrims to Europe and the Holy Land. Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for the Holy Land

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“The Holy Land.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Holy%20Land. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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