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expatriation

noun as in exile

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That’s where the expatriation fantasy kicks in in earnest.

His followers have at least four solid options for expatriation if President Biden wins reelection.

The 47-year-old artist’s sculptures and moving-image works broach expatriation and the idea of returning to an unfamiliar home, something he experienced firsthand when he relocated to Ho Chi Minh City in 2004 after receiving his M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts.

From there, her disembodied soul — and the novel — jumps between 2030, when Tereza travels to the Czech Republic to enlist Roman’s help in trying to track down their mother’s corpse, and the 1970s and ’80s, when Adéla recalls her youthful dissident efforts, her expatriation to the United States and her relationship with Michael, an idealistic young filmmaker who agrees to adapt Karel Capek’s “War With the Newts,” one of Adéla’s favorite novels.

Unlike his successful campaign for economic sanctions and corporate disinvestment in South Africa, or his 27-day hunger strike that pressured the Clinton administration to open the gates to some Haitian refugees, Mr. Robinson’s campaign for widespread reparations on the basis of lineage to the progeny of enslaved African Americans, and his embittered expatriation, generated a backlash.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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