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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

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

On this account, the very proud and the very young sometimes let a passing rancor estrange a friend.

From Life's Minor Collisions by Frances Lester Warner

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

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

He performs a vital service that nonetheless estranges him from the very people he’s duty-bound to defend, placeless in his own domain.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 26, 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

He never adopted that stern and unapproachable disguise that but too often estranges the affections of the child from the parent.

From Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Maturin Murray Ballou

Adrienne Walker, who plays Miriam, Dan’s estranged wife, and Charlotte MacLeod, who plays Violet, Dan’s disaffected daughter, endow their characters with more lineaments than the book provides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Maintaining an openness to people — and a willingness to strengthen connections with everyone from distant or estranged family members to friends, acquaintances and strangers — enables you to benefit from more social interaction.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

Murrell - the estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon - was due to appear at the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday for Crown lawyers to attempt to recover the money he embezzled.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

He co-owns all of his known real estate holdings with his estranged wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, property records show.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

He tells her that although they had become estranged, he often thinks of Vincent, “so often volatile and so impassioned, yet for his noble mind and artistic qualities, always worthy of admiration.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022

Though the situation’s murky, the syntax estranging, the form itself is familiar, for most of the book: left-justified lines, grouped into stanzas.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020

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

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

“The Government,” answered Herr von Knobelsdorff, “would set itself in prejudicial and estranging opposition to the will of the people if it thwarted the Prince's projects.”

From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann