estrange
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Research shows that adults who estrange themselves from relatives often do so "with a great amount of care and consideration over time," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Translation was for him a ferrying across borders and a way of hearing one language estrange another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
"Children who choose to estrange themselves aren't making a little decision on a whim," explained Joshua Stein, a researcher who tracks online trends, especially those that intersect with psychology and bioethics.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024
I’m truly fearful he’ll get the idea that you estrange from a family member as easily as you throw away a napkin.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2021
I do not think that it has been much of a drawback in politics, and the minds it would estrange are very few.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
She transforms herself from “a wild, hatless little savage” into a lady, which estranges her from her childhood companion and besotted admirer, Heathcliff, a foundling who lives with her family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
“I didn’t see her, and nor was she with her family … It breaks bonds and estranges people.”
From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2020
Ultimately, this thing is just another machine that estranges us from the ingredients that make up the food and drinks that we consume.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2018
Meekness, he said, “enables us to set aside everything that divides and estranges us, and to find ever new ways to advance along the path of unity.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2016
We feel kindly to them, but they draw back their hand from us; an antipathy estranges them, they pass us by.
From The Hallam Succession by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Are they estranged from their parents or children?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
While Kim grew closer to Kremlin-linked businessmen, her newly estranged husband, Bakalchuk, enlisted the support of Ramzan Kadyrov, a former warlord and current head of Chechnya who intervenes in business disputes in return for cash.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
‘I have zero regrets’: I’m 84 and estranged from my two adult sons.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Rodgers also has been estranged from his parents and brothers for quite some time now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
There was one woman who seemed to have no immediate family; just one estranged brother.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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By estranging me from the world, derealization, paradoxically, makes it more real.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022
At venues such as the Mudd Club, where he had his first solo exhibition, Tseng was not always dressed in his estranging costume.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 2019
That’s the disillusioned soul of the film, entrenching it within the cynicism of the 90s and estranging it from the hopeful revisionism of modern discourse.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2019
They spoke on the condition of anonymity over concerns about estranging colleagues.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2018
The societies were distinctly understood to be part of the established church, as Wedgwood’s were, and every attempt at estranging them therefrom was sharply reproved; but persecution made their position anomalous.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
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