exiled

verb

past tense of exile
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 novel, reissued this fall, by McNally Editions, takes the form of a memoir by a German Jewish intellectual historian, exiled to New York. — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 The Greek monarchy was abolished in 1973, and Crown Prince Pavlos’ parents, King Constantine II and Queen Anne-Marie, were exiled from the country, only returning in 2013. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026 Joe, a Geordie exiled to Yorkshire in search of work, regaled his son with stories of Jackie Milburn and the three FA Cup triumphs of the 1950s. — James Pearce, New York Times, 22 July 2026 And last year’s constitutional reforms had already established a one-party system in a country where opposition leaders no longer exist, because they have been exiled. — CNN Money, 21 July 2026 Cuba has recently exiled other prominent dissidents, most recently José Daniel Ferrer, who have been forced to abandon the island for the United States. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026 He has been imprisoned, kept under house arrest and, eventually, exiled. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 17 July 2026 After years of him rampaging around and causing destruction, a braintrust of heroes exiled the green monster into space. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 July 2026 The producers essentially did as much once both were exiled from Casa Amor, and the two made the mutual decision to couple up onscreen. — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 1 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for exiled
  1. banished
  2. relegated
  3. deported
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  • Ransoms were paid, with Carlos taking much of the $50 million himself, leading him to be banished from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
    — Air Mail, Air Mail, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Most of us reach for breezy linen pants and flowy maxi dresses during summer, leaving our denim banished to the back of the closet.
    — Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 26 July 2026
Definition of banished
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  • Rather than being relegated to the scrap yard, the structure was placed into storage and is scheduled to go on public display when the London Museum reopens in November.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Death had become bureaucratized—removed from the home and relegated to the hospital—and secularized, stripped of ritual and fixed meaning.
    — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of relegated
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  • As families across South Florida's Haitian community face uncertainty over the expiration of Temporary Protected Status (TPS), one local teenager says her biggest fear is returning from school to find that her mother has been detained or deported.
    — Tania Francois, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • For those detained For people who do not have a final order of removal and have never been to immigration court, there’s a process that has to take place before they can be deported.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of deported

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