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
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
Another reason I spend more time advising those who estrange vs. those who have been estranged?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2022
I was always afraid some one might estrange you from me.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
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
There exists an invisible line that estranges us both emotionally and, often physically, from the rest of the society.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019
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
Believe me, there's nothing estranges a woman's affection so rapidly as that kind of studied neglect.
From The Simpkins Plot by Birmingham, George A.
Among some 7,000 estranged parents surveyed in April a third believed their child’s therapist influenced the decision to end the relationship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Trudeau, who split from his wife, Sophie, in August 2023, shares three children with his estranged spouse, all of whom are currently said to be living with their mother in Montreal.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
People she met included a widow estranged from her adult children over financial woes, who stored piles of their belongings at their mother's home.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
These can include everyone from estranged family members to developing closer bonds with teachers, former sports coaches or, as in the case of Poppie, people she has come into contact with while in care.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
I had seen those movies where the patriarch of the family is on his death bed and he calls for his estranged son so that he can make peace before he goes.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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By estranging me from the world, derealization, paradoxically, makes it more real.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022
These are not cognitively estranging phenomena in the manner of cyberspace, for instance, the technical workings of which most of us simply don’t understand.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 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
For more than a century it had been an estranging barrier to neighborliness, to courtesy, to broad-mindedness; a barrier to friendship, to Christian charity, to peace.
From The Wall Between by Bassett, Sara Ware
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