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alienation

[ayl-yuh-nay-shuhn, ay-lee-uh-] / ˌeɪl jəˈneɪ ʃən, ˌeɪ li ə- /


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"There is no doubt in my mind," he said, that "alienation... had been creeping up."

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

This LAX, unlike the island of civility and good manners Maksik remembers from childhood, fosters alienation and dread.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Now one of their own had become mayor, and some Jewish New Yorkers were experiencing a sense of alienation that she recognized.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Vladimir Tikhonov, Korean Studies professor at the University of Oslo, told AFP Guryong "symbolises the alienation of the urban poor from the mainstream of South Korean society".

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

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

Events of every description, changes, alienations, removals, – all, all must be comprised in it; and oblivion of the past – how natural, how certain too!

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2021

John David Washington’s performance in BlacKkKlansman is impressive but the film’s quasi-Brechtian alienations and comic cartoonery arguably mean that it is more difficult to engage with his character emotionally.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2019

The Formula of Concord was the cause of the most bitter controversies, dissensions, and alienations.

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Events of every description, changes, alienations, removals--all, all must be comprised in it, and oblivion of the past-- how natural, how certain too!

From Persuasion by Jane Austen

These miserable habits of tale-bearing and meddling, of backbiting and whispering, are the source of the greater part of the quarrellings, alienations, jealousies, and divisions in families.

From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate


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