exile
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Three days later, the president resigned and left the White House for exile in California.
From Salon • May 8, 2026
Screams echo from the upstairs bedrooms, where two husbands are in exile, watching a Green Bay Packers game with a newborn baby.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
After going into self-imposed exile, he re-emerged last year in Goma, the key eastern city that had come under the control of Rwandan-based M23 fighters as they mounted a lightning offensive.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
The writer left his native Ireland when he was a young man, but the nation’s struggle for independence haunted the fiction he wrote in exile.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 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
Vocabulary lists containing exile
Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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Persepolis
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