alienate

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Yet when the Broncos hired McDaniels in 2009, he managed to alienate both the team’s quarterback and star receiver before ever coaching a game.

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That left executives working through the holidays to devise a complicated road back that wouldn’t alienate the players who had stayed all along.

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But it’s easy to see why a proprietor might hesitate, since a “Pistols Welcome” banner might alienate other customers.

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Mr. Barnes has long brought something exotic to English literature, but never anything so abstruse as to become alienating.

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Going after the ports themselves would make the enforcement of sanctions easier, but it carries the risk of alienating Turkey, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally.

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