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exile

noun as in person deported from a place

verb as in deport from place

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It’s a story about Ireland and exile and carrying the ghosts of family and home through time.

Michael then abandoned his profession and left the country, heading for England and a life of permanent, hopefully peaceful, exile.

That fear has been significantly reduced since Gammeh’s defeat and subsequent exile.

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Some exiles who used their wits to enter America were collaborators, even war criminals.

For one, they’re without their head coach-in-exile, Dan Hughes, after he wasn’t approved, for medical reasons, to enter the bubble.

A twinned, imagined narrative of a fictitious Fidel Castro and a Miami exile intent on assassinating him.

After Olympic boxer Guillermo Rigondeux defected, his family suffered a form of domestic exile.

Both the Republicans in Congress and the American-Cuban community in exile have been speaking out against the warming relations.

He was eventually allowed to leave, but he was forced to resign as ambassador and now lives in Washington, effectively in exile.

Instead of wallowing in comedy exile, Slate was earning a book deal.

The foster-child remained behind to share the hut of the political exile.

The exile and the maiden, in short, fell in love with each other, and they mutually vowed never to be parted but by force.

He accordingly betook himself to London, where he had social resources which would, perhaps, make exile endurable.

He never returned, but died in England on June 3, 1780, an unhappy and a homesick exile from the country which he loved.

The exile too, far from home and kindred smokes on as he muses of happier hours gone never to return.

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On this page you'll find 95 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exile, such as: banishment, diaspora, dispersion, displacement, exclusion, and expatriation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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