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alienation

[eyl-yuh-ney-shuhn, ey-lee-uh-] / ˌeɪl yəˈneɪ ʃən, ˌeɪ li ə- /


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Alienation is one of those concepts that I've always been a little suspicious of because it could be so fuzzy and all-encompassing.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025

Alienation in Marxism, the estrangement of workers from their work and from themselves due to capitalist exploitation.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Alienation, isolation, depression and outright anger are very real issues with which students wrestle.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022

Alienation, uncertainty, change — it’s starting to sound all too familiar, in or out of Cuba.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2019

Alienation between rulers and ruled even extended to matters of simple nomenclature: according to one modern authority on demotic-script documents, the natives studiously avoided referring to Alexandria in the language of their conquerors.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro




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