alienation
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"There is no doubt in my mind," he said, that "alienation... had been creeping up."
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
His mother, Tatiana Yantsen, watched him with a sense of alienation from the other beaming parents around her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Now one of their own had become mayor, and some Jewish New Yorkers were experiencing a sense of alienation that she recognized.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
His alienation from the press caused ongoing problems.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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
Between father and son, said Mencius, there should be no reproving admonitions to what is good, because these lead to such alienations.
From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Arthur H. Smith
But in course of time, as alienations of small parcels of manors to free tenants came to prevail, the proprietors of land were placed in a new situation relatively to its cultivators.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
How few have done justice to the sad partings, the mournful alienations that have been caused by circumstances!
From Mr. Hogarth's Will by Catherine Helen Spence
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