exile
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Screams echo from the upstairs bedrooms, where two husbands are in exile, watching a Green Bay Packers game with a newborn baby.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
He was elected prime minister in 2001 and again in 2005, and took himself into exile after his second term was cut short by a military coup.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
Ibrahem now lives in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, after spending several years in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, but life in exile remains uncertain.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
A lapse in judgment has sent the previously infallible industry visionary, with Agnes in tow, into self-imposed, self-described exile on Maui, where the Hopkinses have built a showstopper of a house.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
As the youngest of the four, she had had the least chance to bond to the Island before our abrupt exile almost a decade before.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing exile
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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Persepolis
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