exile

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How Tereza’s exile helps her countrymen isn’t quite clear, but I suspect it starts with giving someone younger her house and her job.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

"We know every stage of its history, from Napoleon's exile on Saint Helena right up to the present day."

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

From the first days of his rule, the Fidel Castro referred to Cubans who went into exile as “gusanos,” Spanish for worms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

But he lived abroad from the 1960s until 1999, mainly writing and teaching in France and Spain, before ending what he called his "voluntary exile" and returning to Peru.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

My working theory then held all black people as kings in exile, a nation of original men severed from our original names and our majestic Nubian culture.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates