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exile

[eg-zahyl, ek-sahyl] / ˈɛg zaɪl, ˈɛk saɪl /




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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

He was elected prime minister in 2001 and again in 2005, and took himself into exile after his second term was cut short by a military coup.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 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

Tialys and Salmakia flew back to look and were overjoyed to see their own people there, and every other kind of conscious being who had ever been punished by the Authority with exile and death.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman




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