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as in expulsion
the forced removal from a homeland
the exile of French settlers from Nova Scotia resulted in the birth of the Cajun community in the U.S.
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as in refugee
a person forced to emigrate for political reasons
after being overthrown in a coup, the dictator spent the remainder of his life as an exile in a string of less-than-welcoming countries
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as in to banish
to force to leave a country
with their conquest of the Moors complete, Ferdinand and Isabella next exiled the Jews from Spain
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Recent Examples of exile
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2026
Guo built an online brand as a political exile and an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
30 June 2026
Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
8 June 2026
An internal email obtained by The Charlotte Observer last week suggests the funding could come from housing federal inmates the sheriff once exiled from Mecklenburg County.
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Julia Coin
june 6,
Charlotte Observer,
6 June 2026
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Noun
Miami has become a central hub for Venezuelan political exiles, migrants and business communities, making developments involving Venezuela especially resonant locally.
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Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2026
Guo built an online brand as a political exile and an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Miranda Jeyaretnam,
Time,
30 June 2026
Verb
And he was stripped of his titles and has basically been exiled to Sandringham.
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Lizzie Lanuza,
StyleCaster,
8 June 2026
An internal email obtained by The Charlotte Observer last week suggests the funding could come from housing federal inmates the sheriff once exiled from Mecklenburg County.
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Julia Coin
june 6,
Charlotte Observer,
6 June 2026
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Accra’s 1969 migrant expulsion and Uganda’s mass ban three years later both triggered capital flight and supply chain chaos.
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The poems explore themes of loss, identity, artmaking and the natural world, as well as the 1885 expulsion of Chinese immigrants from Eureka, California.
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Court bars asylum claims before refugees enter US Alito wrote another decision June 25 for a 6-3 majority that allowed the administration to turn back refugees at the border.
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Cathryn Miller-Wilson is executive director of HIAS Pennsylvania, a refugee agency that serves about 6,000 clients a year.
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Catlett was banished from the United States for what her art had to say.
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But being intellectually skeptical of something is not the same as banishing it from one’s existence.
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But the court also said the people facing deportation must pursue their cases individually where they are being held, under what are called habeas petitions, rather than collectively, under what is called a class action.
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Nearly half of all respondents in deportation proceedings filed in California courts do not have legal representation, according to TRAC data.
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So why did the filmmakers behind this cinematic reboot of DC‘s female answer to Superman relegate poor Krypto, who was such a big part of making last year’s Superman so much fun, to a mere cameo?
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They were relegated the following campaign, but finished second in the Championship last season to head back to the Premier League.
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In the month of May, the US deported 1,746 Venezuelans according to ICE Flight Monitor.
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Hernández said that her husband was detained during an ICE check-in and that even though he was told a judge would review his case, he was deported Wednesday.
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Prosecutors said the children were then transported to El Paso after crossing the border.
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McConnell was found unconscious the morning of June 14 and transported to a local hospital in an Advanced Life Support ambulance, according to Punchbowl News and the New York Post.
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“Exile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exile. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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