alienated
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“People are alienated from our current politics not because Americans are cynical, but because people recognize that they deserve better.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
That this love and affection was alienated and destroyed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Beijing has alienated most of the other European partners it courted through the so-called 17+1 initiative a decade ago, notes Dimitar Lilkov, a senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
Pope Francis was often seen as a spontaneous progressive, who sometimes alienated Catholic traditionalists - for example in his restrictions on Latin Mass, which Pope Leo has eased.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
In school, Sophie felt alienated because she could not confide in a classmate or teacher.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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