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Bangladeshi authorities say they were not informed of the recent execution of two Bangladeshi nationals in the holy city of Mecca until after it had taken place, local media reports.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“The holy grail is a tick vaccine,” Lea Hamner, an epidemiologist with a tick-focused program on the island, told an anxious crowd at one of the many public meetings focused on ticks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

One showed a trail of lights linking the holy Muslim sites of Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem accompanied by a nationalist, 19th-century Arabic poem by Egyptian poet Mahmoud Sami al-Baroudi:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Jonathan Hurst, chief scientist at Agility, told MarketWatch that it could take one or two decades to make humanoids safe enough for use in households, which experts call the industry’s holy grail.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Some people claimed that he was a holy man who had come down from the mountains to save the city in its darkest hour.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

No one would call him a minimalist, but his holy of holies is not to allow his productions to eclipse his performers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025

But the holiest of holies were the works of Judy Blume, who taught us that people with seemingly enviable lives had problems of their own.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2023

Jerusalem was also the site of the holiest of holies of Judaism, the most sacred of spaces where the Temple of Solomon had stood until its destruction by the Romans.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

The holy of holies makes a return to Broadway, this time in the person of Sean Hayes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2016

But at the wonder in the boy’s eyes she collected herself and asked him who he was, so young and yet seemingly so dedicated to this high service in Greece’s holy of holies.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

“Rich people can get a private beach and others can’t…I don’t pretend to be holier than anybody, I just do have these feelings.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

“These are women who have traversed many things and are not holier than thou and are very, very loud,” she said.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2023

It’s easy for strangers to be holier than thou if they haven’t tried to solve the problem themselves.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2023

"Every time we say, 'Well, I believe in the science,' I think we come off holier than thou," said Suzanne Shelton, CEO of the Shelton Group.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2021

“If God gets even half the promises we’ve been laying down, the U.S.A. is going to be holier than the Vatican,” Monaco said.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

The 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation said attacks on Mecca and Medina province, where Islam's second holiest shrine is located, constituted an "unacceptable and intolerable transgression".

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

The leaders of the three majority Sunni Muslim nations signed the agreement at a ceremony in Mecca, home to the holiest site in Islam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

They are forbidden from contact with relatives and friends in Israel, and can’t visit the country, home to Judaism’s holiest sites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said recognition by Saudi Arabia, a regional power and home to Islam's holiest sites, would mark a "historic leap" forward for peace in the Middle East.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

The holiest pilgrimage of all was to Palestine, now Israel, where Jesus Christ lived and died.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz