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exile

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exile (someone) from (some place)

To banish someone from some place, often as retribution. The official decree exiled him from France for crimes against the country. The cool girls exiled me from their lunch table because they think I started that nasty rumor about them—but I didn't! If you start publicizing a wild theory like this, they'll exile you from the scientific community!
See also: exile

exile (someone) from (some place) to (some place)

To banish someone from one place to another, often as retribution. The official decree exiled him from France to his native country. If our enemies advance any further, they could exile the president from the White House to a secret location! Was Napoleon really exiled from France to the island of Elba?
See also: exile, to

exile (someone) to (some place)

To banish someone from one place to another, often as retribution. The official decree exiled him to his native country. If our enemies advance any further, they could exile the president to a secret location! Was Napoleon really exiled to the island of Elba?
See also: exile, to
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exile

someone (from something) (to something) to force someone to leave something or some place and go to something or some place, often as a punishment for political reasons. The government exiled him from his hometown to an island off the coast of South America. They exiled Gerald to another country.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Daniel Beer, The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile under the Tsars.
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It is worth mentioning here that Wajahat Khan had written in his article in The Times that the ex-premier Nawaz Sharif might actually go into exile and avoid all his corruption cases against him.
It is to be notified that journalist Wajahat Khan had claimed in his article that the ex-premier Nawaz Sharif might actually go into exile and avoid all his corruption cases against him.
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Mohammad-Ali Shamshirzan and Hamid Arayesh were sentenced to a lifetime in internal exile. Four other dervishes --Kazem Dehghan, Mohammad Ali Sadeghi, Ebrahim Bahrami and Mohammad Ali Dehghan --who had also been sentenced to exile, are now facing five to seven years in prison.
Although we do not know the identity of the letter's writer or recipient, its historical context (it was probably composed during the time of the family's exile), its genderless voice, and its imagery and performance of incarceration provoke a number of significant questions of central interest to this Special Issue of Parergon.
The concept of exile remains overwhelmingly influenced by the writings of Edward Said, particularly in his development of the 'contrapuntal' as a key method in understanding how exile life is lived between the 'homeland' and the space of 'exile'.
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Next, Peddie turns from the contested political terrain to the early years of exile. He drew on a variety of primary and secondary sources, and conducted interviews with nine female and twelve male Chileans as well as two non-Chileans with links to Toronto's exile community.
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