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internal exile

noun

  1. a state of comparative isolation imposed upon certain political dissidents within the former Soviet Union, in which the subject was forced to live in a remote and often unfamiliar place and in which freedom of movement and personal contact with family, friends, and associates were severely restricted.

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It was a moment when Boston-based writers and journalists felt that we were going into a kind of internal exile.

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