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

Pitino was there because it was coaching, and it was interesting, but he was mostly there because he was in exile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

Hanging on the wall is a large portrait of Iran's last shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was ousted in the Islamic revolution and died in exile.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 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

When he saw that it was so indeed, he returned over the land to Shath and as an exile stood in the doorway of the Outer Hearth.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin