@radicalresilience @david @darren @Bluedepth
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...but the application of it to a new area.
If you have to leave your home at short notice without the possibility of ever going back (in particular, if it does not exist anymore), you flee from it and, thus, become a (digital) refugee.
In this case, however, it is not even a new use. It is just not the limited special use, according to webster.com:
"REFUGEE:
one that flees
especially : a person who flees to a foreign country or..."