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Which poet wrote his most famous work while in exile?

exile

[eg-zahyl, ek-sahyl] / ˈɛg zaɪl, ˈɛk saɪl /




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Machado has been in exile since covertly leaving her South American homeland in late 2025 to receive her Nobel Peace Prize.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

“Our sovereign voice returns with her to lead and guide this process!” wrote Edmundo González, Machado’s close ally, who is in exile in Spain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Gonzalez Urrutia went into exile after a bounty was placed on his head, while Machado stayed behind to lead the resistance.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

Thomas, an outspoken critic of Nazism, leading to his exile, believes that his public appearances can unite the country he loves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Whatever their sires or their grandsires might have been back in Westeros before their exile, the men of the Golden Company were sellswords now, and no sellsword could be trusted.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

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 1961, about 1,400 Cuban exiles trained by the Central Intelligence Agency landed at the Bay of Pigs on Cuba’s southern coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 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

Bittersteel saw the strength of House Blackfyre scattering to the four winds, so he formed the Golden Company to bind the exiles together.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

An alliance of Venezuelan opposition parties on Sunday reaffirmed exiled Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado as its leader, increasing pressure on interim authorities to allow her return.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

An exiled Russian opposition figure living in the US says he was warned by American and Lithuanian security services that his life was in danger.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Some of the exiled had betrayed Britain decades earlier, their names allegedly appearing on a “naughty list” in the Soviet Embassy in London “in the wake of 1989.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

“I thought the first king of the City of Bright Moonlight exiled his father.”

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

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

He said that invading forces had ransacked his offices, exiling his team to another location where they are attempting to continue running their city.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2022

She also heeds Logan's orders, exiling Kendall, her own child, from her party to accommodate her ex-husband, who won't be seen with him.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 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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