as in banished
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 exiled
The film is set in 1935 Tartu and at the University of Tartu, where, a year earlier, Professor Lazar Gulkowitsch, exiled from Germany, had established a chair of Judaic Studies within the Faculty of Philosophy.
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2025
Krasinski also has the least interesting yet very successful Hollywood career imaginable, but that doesn’t mean he should be exiled or worse.
—Choire Sicha, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
And with their father being basically exiled to Sandringham and their mother moving somewhere separately for the first time in years, everyone is wondering how Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie will react and how this all affects them.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 4 Nov. 2025
Campbell was exiled after that, sent back to Worcester four days later never to return to Boston.
—Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Dharamshala is best known internationally as the seat of the Dalai Lama, who has been based there since being exiled from Tibet in 1959.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1948, Vicuña was exiled from her native country in the early 1970s following the violent military coup that ousted President Salvador Allende.
—News Desk, Artforum, 10 Oct. 2025
In Sacramento and San Diego, Democrats reign supreme, holding every office and legislative supermajorities so entrenched that opposing views have been exiled.
—John H Bolthouse, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
Since 2017, Myanmar’s military has killed tens of thousands of Rohingya and exiled hundreds of thousands more to neighboring Bangladesh; in early 2025, the junta cut off food and supplies to the 130,000 Rohingya in Myanmar living in prison-like refugee camps, leading to starvation and disease.
—Dan Swift, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 Nov. 2025
Krasinski also has the least interesting yet very successful Hollywood career imaginable, but that doesn’t mean he should be exiled or worse.
—Choire Sicha, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
And with their father being basically exiled to Sandringham and their mother moving somewhere separately for the first time in years, everyone is wondering how Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie will react and how this all affects them.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 4 Nov. 2025
Campbell was exiled after that, sent back to Worcester four days later never to return to Boston.
—Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Dharamshala is best known internationally as the seat of the Dalai Lama, who has been based there since being exiled from Tibet in 1959.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1948, Vicuña was exiled from her native country in the early 1970s following the violent military coup that ousted President Salvador Allende.
—News Desk, Artforum, 10 Oct. 2025
In Sacramento and San Diego, Democrats reign supreme, holding every office and legislative supermajorities so entrenched that opposing views have been exiled.
—John H Bolthouse, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
Since 2017, Myanmar’s military has killed tens of thousands of Rohingya and exiled hundreds of thousands more to neighboring Bangladesh; in early 2025, the junta cut off food and supplies to the 130,000 Rohingya in Myanmar living in prison-like refugee camps, leading to starvation and disease.
—Dan Swift, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exiled
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Within 30 days, registrations would be required, proofs of freedom demanded, and Black residents lacking two white sponsors willing to post the $500 bond would be banished.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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The man in the suit, banished from Faik Ağa, had taken up a spot at Irfan’s café.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Thus far, Arsenal’s excellent form has relegated the injuries to a subplot.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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And that feeling of attachment, as Friedman sees it, is not relegated to vintage.—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
8 Nov. 2025
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Most people deported to Tapachula are not from southern Mexico, said Ivana Saldivar, who heads the Tapachula office of the United Nations' International Organization for Migration.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
USA Today,
9 Nov. 2025
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That comment had been recorded by Von when a fan told him her friend got deported and asked him to record a message.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Exiled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exiled. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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