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Mecca as in: pilgrimage to Mecca
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Non-Muslims are prohibited from entering Mecca.
Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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Each year millions of Muslim pilgrims visit Mecca -- especially during the Hajj.Mecca = holiest city of Islam
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We are obliged, at least once in our lives, to visit the holy city of Mecca. (source)Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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I went to a shopping mall with my mother, as she wanted to buy a special burqa to pray in Mecca. (source)Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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A prayer rug showing a slightly oblong Mecca was nailed to one of the walls. (source)Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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Some of us pray to Jesus, some of us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. (source)Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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I faced Mecca with the help of a line I scratched into the pale yellow ground and carefully kept up. (source)Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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He told me too how, in Indonesia, he had been converted to Islam by his friend Bami the cook: giving up pork, fasting during Ramadan, praying to Mecca five times a day. (source)
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It has blurry photos of the fiery destruction of Jerusalem, Mecca, and the Vatican. (source)Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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No prayer rugs or symbol to show which way is east toward Mecca? (source)Mecca = the birthplace of Muhammad and the holiest city of Islam (located in Saudi Arabia)
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Islam adopted Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and Bagdad as holy cities. (source)
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In a long row the dirt huts all kneel facing east, as if praying for the staved-off collapse—not toward Mecca exactly but east toward the village's one road and the river and behind all that, the pink sunrise surprise. (source)Mecca = holiest city of Islam (in Saudi Arabia)
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The whole thing made me think of some elegant High Muslim mosque on New Mecca irreverently garlanded with tinsel. (source)
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"Like Mecca or Jerusalem," said Clary, thoughtfully. (source)
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mecca as in: a mecca for young artists
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With its stunning beaches and vibrant nightlife, Miami has become a mecca for tourists from around the globe.
mecca = a place that attracts many visitors
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The annual Comic-Con event in San Diego is a mecca for comic book enthusiasts, attracting thousands of visitors each year.
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This was why, in the decades since the simulation's launch, the city had become a kind of high-tech Mecca. (source)
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The mall was a mecca for a newborn street rat. (source)
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Of course, the sights I'm most interested in seeing—besides Andrew, of course—are the Oxfams where I can find some undiscovered treasure, and maybe this place I've heard about called Topshop, which is like the British equivalent of T.J. Maxx, or maybe H&M, which we don't actually have in Michigan, but that I've heard about, of course, as a fashion lover's mecca. (source)mecca = a place that attracts many visitors
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In many ways Colorado Springs today is what Los Angeles was fifty years ago — a mecca for the disenchanted middle class, a harbinger of cultural trends, a glimpse of the future. (source)mecca = place that attracts many visitors
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Colorful azalea bushes bloomed like explosions all around this mecca of fast food. (source)mecca = a place that attracts many visitors
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Not long ago Westwood Village had been an island of quaint charm in the more turbulent sea of the city around it, a mecca for shoppers and theatergoers. (source)
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Chthonia had become the gunters' Mecca. (source)
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His baby sister, Mecca, lay asleep in her crib. (source)Mecca = someone's name in this story
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Mecca's milk was cold; her food was fresh; and Rameck's money, as well as that opportunity, was gone. (source)
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Mecca wasn't even two years old. (source)
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