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

Within two years, however, she had lost her re-election bid and spent 18 years in political exile, unsuccessfully running in nine state and federal elections until she was elected to the Senate in 2016.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 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

The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran from exile in France in 1979, after the shah departed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

By the time Aeneas’s chilled arms were weakening with dread—if extemplo Aeneae solvuntur frigore membra meant chilled arms weakening with dread—Turner was wishing that fate would exile the Minister’s Son anywhere else.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt