as in to travel
to take a trip especially of some distance
tourists pilgrimaging to all of the traditional destinations across Europe
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Recent Examples of pilgrimage
Ali Shihabi, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
Next year will mark the culmination of its Jubilee Year celebrations, and through January, the city will continue to host pilgrimage events, public art installations, and expanded museum programming.
—AFAR Media, 4 Aug. 2025
CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
The first summer Mike joined us for our annual pilgrimage to Watch Hill, Rhode Island—the last summer my dad was able to travel—the two of them spent hours bopping around the pastel-colored shops.
—Ashley Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2026
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Verb
Advertisement Travel to the country once limited essentially to pilgrimage and business travel, opened with a tourist e-visa in 2019 and has since become an engine of jobs and investment.
—Ali Shihabi, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
Next year will mark the culmination of its Jubilee Year celebrations, and through January, the city will continue to host pilgrimage events, public art installations, and expanded museum programming.
—AFAR Media, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
Hajj, an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, is taking place this year at the end of May.
—CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
The first summer Mike joined us for our annual pilgrimage to Watch Hill, Rhode Island—the last summer my dad was able to travel—the two of them spent hours bopping around the pastel-colored shops.
—Ashley Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pilgrimage
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That’s according to a reporter traveling with Vance.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
12 Apr. 2026
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Glover will become the first Black man to travel to deep space, Koch the first woman and Hansen the first non-American.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Apr. 2026
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But his journey hasn't been easy.—
Conor McGill,
CBS News,
17 Apr. 2026
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United Airlines, for example, now offers a bag-tracking feature in its app that allows travelers to follow luggage throughout the journey, with updates similar to package delivery tracking.—
Bailey Berg,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Apr. 2026
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All the trembling, as Kimbangu touched the sick, alarmed European settlers and reassured the plantation workers who trekked to Nkamba in search of healing.—
Rodney Muhumuza,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Travelers hoping to hit the slopes will want to visit during the winter, while hikers aiming to trek up Mount Rainier should wait until summer.—
Scott Bay,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Apr. 2026
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Potholes may go unfilled, Davis said, and drivers may have to make unplanned trips to the mechanic shop to fix their tires as a result.—
Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Still, Orlando didn’t take full advantage of its trips to the line.—
Jason Beede,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 Apr. 2026
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In India, the Queen showed her appreciation for the country by touring the Taj Mahal and riding an elephant.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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Tracing Jason Ryan’s footsteps Since his conviction in Ireland, Ryan has moved around the UK a fair bit, living for a while in Cheshire, touring a play across the north of England and then landing his job with Norwood’s Black Box theater in Birmingham.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
16 Apr. 2026
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Seemingly on a quest to make a film in each genre, though always through the lens of black comedy, The Lobster was his stab at dystopian, absurdist…romance?—
Debby Wolfinsohn,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Apr. 2026
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Objects interposed between subjects and the camera hint at the quest for clarity through the intervening years.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
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Silversea is lauded for both its classic ocean liners and expedition ships, which voyage the globe including the Poles.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
15 Apr. 2026
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Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first human to voyage into space just a month before, with American astronaut Alan Shepard close on his heels.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
23 Mar. 2026
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Recalling the day in a recent interview with The Times, Cook quickly turns indignant about the bureaucratic odyssey that yellow slip launched.—
Fedor Zarkhin,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
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Artemis 2 astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen are due to return to Earth on April 10, enduring a fiery atmospheric re-entry before finally splashing down off the coast of San Diego to bring an end to their 10-day space odyssey.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Pilgrimage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pilgrimage. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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