exile

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In it, she argues that the grand narratives of exile and revolution are, at their core, made up of private reckonings with irretrievable consequences.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Brothers to the Rescue, a Cuban exile group that searched for rafts carrying migrants from Cuba to the US, had previously dropped anti-Castro leaflets near the Cuban coast.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Three days later, the president resigned and left the White House for exile in California.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

After going into self-imposed exile, he re-emerged last year in Goma, the key eastern city that had come under the control of Rwandan-based M23 fighters as they mounted a lightning offensive.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

By the time Aeneas’s chilled arms were weakening with dread—if extemplo Aeneae solvuntur frigore membra meant chilled arms weakening with dread—Turner was wishing that fate would exile the Minister’s Son anywhere else.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt