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alienation

[ayl-yuh-nay-shuhn, ay-lee-uh-] / ˌeɪl jəˈneɪ ʃən, ˌeɪ li ə- /


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Vladimir Tikhonov, Korean Studies professor at the University of Oslo, told AFP Guryong "symbolises the alienation of the urban poor from the mainstream of South Korean society".

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

The conception of the role, marked by a dim view of stardom’s suffocating alienation, was something Jolie clearly understood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

What if the destruction of your planet left you with a permanent case of agonized alienation, and you became a weird, antisocial loner who hung out in bars drinking alone?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

She says she connected with Eminem's work early on - especially the feeling of being out of step with the world around you and turning that alienation into music.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

This was the turning point, they say, where Sapiens cast off its intimate symbiosis with nature and sprinted towards greed and alienation.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Events of every description, changes, alienations, removals, – all, all must be comprised in it; and oblivion of the past – how natural, how certain too!

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2021

John David Washington’s performance in BlacKkKlansman is impressive but the film’s quasi-Brechtian alienations and comic cartoonery arguably mean that it is more difficult to engage with his character emotionally.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2019

Instead of the spirit of the Gospel in our dwellings, alienations, suspicion, jealousy, wrangling, strife, and every form of evil would prevail.

From The Sable Cloud A Southern Tale With Northern Comments (1861) by Nehemiah Adams

I refer to the state of our divisions and alienations of spirit on account of religion.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Will you say that the alienations made before the 11th of Elizabeth shall not stand good?

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Edmund Burke




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