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
Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2026
Before the pandemic, around 250,000 people made the denim pilgrimage to Kojima Jeans Street each year.
—Jessica Binns, Sourcing Journal, 18 Mar. 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
Mia Johnson, 56, relished the start of the Prairie View pilgrimage that has defined her life for more than half a century.
—Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2026
Before the pandemic, around 250,000 people made the denim pilgrimage to Kojima Jeans Street each year.
—Jessica Binns, Sourcing Journal, 18 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pilgrimage
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Kristopher David was driving to work Wednesday morning near the intersection of Broward Boulevard and Seventh Avenue when a black Audi, traveling westbound at a high rate of speed, T-boned his white BMW.—
Nikiya Carrero,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Instead, Hall put on late-night shows in the basement of his home and became a popular child magician, earning money by doing his routine at ritzy parties and travelling to magic conventions.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2026
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For Stirtz and McCollum, this March Madness run continues a journey that began at Northwest Missouri State and continued last season at Drake before the pair both moved on to Iowa.—
Kristie Rieken,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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Though the original clip is authentic, showing seven dogs wandering down the side of a highway in northeastern Jilin province, Chinese state media has since debunked the narrative of their escape and journey home.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2026
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Agents trekked through muddy terrain in the dark and eventually found Medina curled up in a ball next to a tree.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
24 Mar. 2026
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Rugged terrain dots the area where the crash took place, prompting search crews to be flown in along with trekking in on foot.—
Cecilio Padilla,
CBS News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Five takeaways from the Miami Heat’s 120-103 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers (45-28) on Wednesday night at Rocket Arena to begin a three-game trip and snap its five-game skid.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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In fact, calmer conditions often made trips more accessible for families and less experienced rafters, according to Bradford.—
Spencer Wilson,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2026
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More recently, their music was revived by Faragher and Seals’ cousin Brady, who toured together as Seals & Crofts 2.—
Hillel Italie,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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At Château d'Entre-Deux-Monts, visitors can tour the 17th-century estate before participating in a truffle hunt with the property's producer.—
Lale Arikoglu,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Mar. 2026
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That quest, which put her in touch with dozens of victims, generated an award-winning series in the Miami Herald that set off a chain reaction culminating in Epstein’s 2019 arrest, Acosta’s resignation and, two years later, the sentencing of Epstein associate and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
30 Mar. 2026
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The rapid quest for short-term advantage masks the long-term threat to global energy markets, one over which the Treasury has little control.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
30 Mar. 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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Ahead of the week’s worst heat, some Bay Area residents voyaged outside to enjoy the sun and unseasonably balmy conditions.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
16 Mar. 2026
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Hot Water follows a Lebanese mother and her American son on an odyssey across the United States.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
30 Mar. 2026
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The total fee required to launch my mother’s dress on this byzantine odyssey was seven thousand five hundred dollars.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2026
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“Pilgrimage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pilgrimage. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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