exile
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"If they let their people interact with the outside world, they are highly likely to be overthrown, and maybe killed or driven into exile," he added.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
The only need he expressed for it was as a fundraising tool for his Tibetan government in exile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Javier Oropeza had arrived in the country 48 hours earlier after two years in exile in Spain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Robinson began this summer in an exile from the England team that had lasted for more than two years.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
It would not bring him out of this exile.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Some of the exiles arrested by U.S. agents in recent months had been welcomed with open arms by the U.S. government just three years ago under a novel deal negotiated by the State Department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Those frantically trying to find out about family members included Venezuelans in Doral, Fla., which has one of the largest communities of exiles in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
For a woman who Hollywood exiles into the Nevada desert, only for her to build an empire and return to Los Angeles to conquer the industry, besting cancer should be a cinch.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
In February 1996, Cuban fighter jets shot down two small civilian planes - owned by a group of Cuban exiles in Miami.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
In Dagon’s day a weak king sat the Iron Throne, his rheumy eyes fixed across the narrow sea where bastards and exiles plotted rebellion.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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María Corina Machado, the exiled leader of the Venezuelan opposition and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, on Thursday raised her own worries about what the oil deal means for the future of Venezuela.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
"With climate change intensifying, there is no indication that such hazards will stop," said Dhondup Wangmo, a research fellow at the Tibet Policy Institute, a thinktank linked to the exiled Tibetan government in India.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
The exiled Russian writer Nina Berberova ecstatically recalled touring Rome with Muratov as her guide: “He loved Italy and taught me to love it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
In 2024 the former Liverpool winger joined Arsenal on loan, but upon returning to Chelsea in 2025 was exiled from the first-team squad and made to train separately.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Why was he exiled, and I let go free?
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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In 1952 his re-entry permit to the U.S. was revoked, effectively exiling him for nearly 20 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
And how can they transplant themselves without exiling the working-class natives whose culture and labor the city cannot survive without?
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2022
When the invading forces took control of Melitopol a week ago they ransacked the mayor's offices, Federov said, exiling his team to another location where they are attempting to continue running their city.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2022
The exiling of “Jingle Bells” was first reported by writer Peter Lovenheim in the Rochester Beacon, an online publication.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
Now Alex was exiling Bri, the sweetest of them all.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
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