exile
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Robinson began this summer in an exile from the England team that had lasted for more than two years.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Speaking in an exclusive interview in Amsterdam, Elena Zhemkova also vowed to keep up the fight for human rights in Russia, despite her group being declared illegal and herself forced into exile.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Regardless, should you ever feel that many people around you are looking increasingly smooth, there’s an easy solution that does not require Twilight Zone–style exile from society: Expand your social horizons a bit.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2026
While it is unclear why the journalists were arrested, some local reports have linked their detention to a Togolese investigative journalist who is living in exile in France.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The permanence of one’s social exile is often the hardest to swallow.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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In Australia, home to a 3,000-strong Tibetan community, exiles were in anguish about family in Tibet.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
In the 1930s and 1940s, postrevolutionary Mexico emerged as both an incubator of modern art and haven for European refugees, political exiles and other expats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Bulgaria’s secret services kept a dossier on him during his years abroad, routinely monitoring the correspondence of prominent exiles and dissidents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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
Dad and I are exiles, Remarkables who don’t live in Remarkable cities.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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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
Whether this exiled team finds a home as the investigative video arm of an outlet like ProPublica, launches a streaming-native newsmagazine or partners with an independent distributor, the potential is staggering.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Since then, most of the opposition has been exiled, and nearly a million Nicaraguans have fled the country as repression deepened, most of them to neighboring Costa Rica and the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
To support his family he had to be exiled from them.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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
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
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
Bitter local officials pushed through an ordinance banning automobiles from the Stanford campus and all tourist areas, effectively exiling them from the city.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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