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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

You are still in the dark as to what means she employed to estrange poor little Lucy Warner from you.”

From Marjorie Dean High School Senior by Chase, Josephine

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

But it is not a rare thing with us that one estranges or alienates another's man-servant or maid-servant, or entices them away by flattering words.

From Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

The estranged prince and his family, including seven-year-old Archie and five-year-old Lilibet, will stay in a mixture of royal residences and private accommodation during the visit, the source confirmed to AFP.

From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026

Molly Shannon, Ferrell’s frequent scene partner on “SNL,” plays the protagonist’s estranged wife.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 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

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

So far estranged, that I did not expect him to come and speak to me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

“The Exhibit” wants to convey art’s power and mystique without estranging the uninitiated.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

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

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022

Chu notes that the world is becoming more cognitively estranging.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019

Lenz’s film reveals how Kusama’s life has been if anything more estranging than her obsessive work, and the ways in which one informs the other.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 23, 2018

Here again we encounter one of the complementary relationships so frequently met with; it is, to be sure, the most estranging of all those we have become acquainted with.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund