exile
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“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
This week, thousands demonstrated in Caracas and other cities, demanding her return from exile in Panama.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
Many other opposition leaders have recently returned from exile, and US-backed talks between the interim government and opposition have been underway.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 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
Silenus wanted to exile Grover immediately, but Chiron persuaded him to at least hear evidence first, so we told everyone what had happened in the crystal cavern, and what Pan had said.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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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
Araspe, the king of Cyprus, and his sister, Elisa, are in love with these two exiles and determined to have them no matter what.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 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
Not one of his friends could be with him at the hour of his death; they were all outlaws, fugitives, exiles, or dead.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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Rocky was exiled to South Philadelphia and installed outside the Spectrum arena, where the 76ers and Flyers played until the 1990s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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
In 2024 the former Liverpool winger joined Arsenal on loan, but upon returning to Chelsea in 2025 was exiled from the first-team squad and made to train separately.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The great tactician answered: “You were still a child, I see, when exiled somehow from your parents’ land.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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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
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
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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