Thesaurus results for PILGRIMAGE

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verb

Definition of pilgrimage

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

Verb

Nearly 100,000 visitors pilgrimage to the area annually to witness a forest canopy cloaked in orange-and-black wings. — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026 Several hundred of them pilgrimage to Arizona each February for the I Heart Pluto Festival. — David Allan, CNN Money, 3 Mar. 2026

Noun

Before stopping at one of the many tavernas that dot the streets, squeeze in a visit to the Panagia Evangelistria, Greece’s most important pilgrimage church, located just up the hill. — Monica Mendal, Vogue, 10 Aug. 2026 Near the shrine, Mohammad Yasin Ahmadi, 15, has come from the Iranian city of Qom on his second pilgrimage. — Jane Arraf, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pilgrimage

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The fact a majority of them belong to people who traveled from another country and the conditions of the desert itself both complicate efforts to identify remains, therefore hindering missing persons cases, experts say.

— Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026
Her campaign’s door-knockers travel with a letter from Bohannan introducing herself.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of travel

Noun

Many travel editors are familiar with the landing at London City Airport, too, where the glittering city skyline shows itself like a mirage after high-altitude journeys.

— Connor Sturges, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Aug. 2026
Its return journey is a mirror image of the outbound one, hence the coaster's unusual name.

— Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of journey

Noun

Then on August 10, a large container ship paid a staggering $4 million to fast-track its trip — leaving others, either unwilling or unable to shell out that kind of sum, in maritime limbo.

— Hira Humayun, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
The situation escalated during a July 2022 mission trip when the accuser confided in a student pastor.

— John Lynch, Arkansas Online, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of trip

Verb

Florida Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins hosted the May press conference, and gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds toured the facility in July.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Kahan’s touring success is also fueling his mental health advocacy through the Busyhead Project, his nonprofit focused on expanding access to mental health resources and reducing stigma.

— SPIN Staff, SPIN, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of tour

Noun

The three-part show centres around the decades-long quest of Iranian-American Pooneh Entezari, who spent more than 30 years pursuing her mother’s killer.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2026
But Trump has been relentless in his quest to beautify the nation’s capital, an overall effort that early estimates have calculated will cost over $1 billion.

— News Desk, Artforum, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of quest

Verb

However, when her island's resources are threatened, Moana embraces her ancestors' voyaging heritage and heads out to sea to find Maui, deliver the heart of Te Fiti (which Maui stole back in the day) and save her people.

— Brian Truitt, USA Today, 9 July 2026
When a blight hits the island, the result of a curse that began when Maui stole a gem representing the heart of the goddess Te Fiti, Moana gets her quest and excuse to voyage — to find the missing Maui and force him to return the stone.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 8 July 2026

Definition of voyage

Noun

The film itself was an odyssey of a shoot, as the cast traversed multiple countries and territories—Scotland, Italy, the Western Sahara, Greece—in all types of weather.

— Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026
His new project is an odyssey tracing the legacy of Spanish colonialism across the Caribbean.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026

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