EXILED Synonyms: 34 Similar and Opposite Words

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 Located in Jerusalem, al-Wasiti became, for years, the place to visit, empowering Palestinian artists exiled all over the world to return to a fountain of unity and belonging. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 26 Aug. 2026 This thriller centers on disgraced or damaged agents of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service who have been exiled to a remote Greek island. — Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Aug. 2026 After British forces recaptured Delhi, much of the city was destroyed and the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled. — Aishwarya Lakshmi, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026 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

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Any doubts over whether that deal would be concluded would have been banished as soon as Riad was taken off.

— Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Since then, the former Duke of York has been effectively banished from royal life, including the Firm’s annual Christmas gathering at Sandringham.

— Emma Banks, InStyle, 21 Aug. 2026

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But in an open system, the worst teams are relegated to lower divisions, while teams that perform well are promoted to the top flight.

— Manuel Rueda, NPR, 30 Aug. 2026
The only other show to have more than one nominee relegated was All Her Fault for acting nominee Dakota Fanning and writing nominee Megan Gallagher.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2026

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Sharma-Crawford did not say if they had already been deported.

— Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 26 Aug. 2026
In July 2025, Haiti’s justice minister, Patrick Pélissier, announced that the government had adopted a new protocol governing the judicial processing of Haitian nationals deported or extradited to the country.

— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026

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