alienation

Example Sentences

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Tom is gripped by a sense of social as well as marital alienation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

“The result: alienation of loyal customers, mounting competitive pressures, and a biz in clear decline,” he wrote.

From Barron's • Dec. 13, 2025

But what we can do is call attention to the forms of nonviolent resistance that challenge our prevalent culture of rage and alienation.

From Salon • Oct. 13, 2025

Barrister Charlotte Proudman, who represented the woman, suggested that the litigation was "one of the worst parental alienation cases".

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025

Like others who know the pain of public alienation, we transformed the knowledge of our public separateness and made it consoling—the reminder of intimacy.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez