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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

Novey transports us toward two reckonings: what exactly happened to estrange the women and, later, how Leah will respond to Jean’s legacy of sculptures.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023

To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; Ð with from.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

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

That which estranges you from me, binds me to your house and noble race still more firmly, and with a bond that no earthly power can dissolve.

From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

Wiley has denied similar allegations from his estranged wife and others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

"I don't want to die estranged from Meghan. I want to meet my grandkids. It might be nice to meet her husband too," Markle told the Mail on Sunday at the time.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

When I first met my late husband, I was shocked to learn that he was estranged from his mother.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Meghan, who has been estranged from her father since before her 2018 wedding, said Friday that she had kept him away from Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to protect them.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

As in: Alexis’s mom and dad are estranged.

From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander

By estranging me from the world, derealization, paradoxically, makes it more real.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022

But the path to that point, the means of establishing what an I.O.C. spokesman called a “parallel world” inside the Games, has had an unmistakably estranging effect.

From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2021

Chu notes that the world is becoming more cognitively estranging.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019

She last had that estranging experience watching herself on screen when she made The Hours, channelling Virginia Woolf, and watching the world from behind a prosthetic nose.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2018

From the precipitous little garden where orange and lime trees bent beneath their fruit among the underbrush of aloes and cactus, they could see, far away, the estranging sea.

From A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George