estrange
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García's film is about fathers and sons, and it certainly tackles the thorniness that can estrange children and their parents.
From Salon • Oct. 21, 2022
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
In his color work, he sometimes accepted ambient blurs of motion to emphasize, and estrange, the stillness of a certain subject amid a street’s commotion.
From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019
There are some who would like to estrange this swath of the country even further from Australia’s coastal population centers.
From Slate • Sep. 24, 2014
If I revert to my devotion to you, it is to prove that no worldly motives could estrange me from the partner of my miseries.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
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