exile
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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
Machado, 59, has been in exile since covertly leaving her South American homeland late last year to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
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
It had been so good seeing him again, loving him, knowing his exile was ended.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
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The potent Met chorus captured the shrieking cackles of the witches, the horror of the courtiers after Duncan’s murder, and the despair of the exiles fleeing Macbeth’s tyranny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 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
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
On April 17, 1961, supported by the CIA and by planes flown by American pilots, a force of 1,400 Cuban exiles opposed to Castro landed at the Bay of Pigs.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Machado's ally, exiled presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, reposted her message and said: "Venezuela! I am thrilled to announce to you that our leader, my dear Maria Corina, is on Venezuelan soil."
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 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
"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
It has labelled the exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, a separatist.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
No wonder they found themselves exiled to the middle of the continent.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
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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
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
The loyalists still shun pop culture and defend Jeffs’s practice of exiling dissenters.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 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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