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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

"Children who choose to estrange themselves aren't making a little decision on a whim," explained Joshua Stein, a researcher who tracks online trends, especially those that intersect with psychology and bioethics.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024

Novey transports us toward two reckonings: what exactly happened to estrange the women and, later, how Leah will respond to Jean’s legacy of sculptures.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023

To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

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

“I didn’t see her, and nor was she with her family … It breaks bonds and estranges people.”

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2020

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

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

We feel kindly to them, but they draw back their hand from us; an antipathy estranges them, they pass us by.

From The Hallam Succession by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

The two brothers have become estranged and reportedly no longer talk.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Taron Egerton says he is estranged from his dad after 'pushing ejector seat'

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The uproar estranged old friends and drew sharp criticism from Jewish organizations and Holocaust survivors, though it did not derail her career.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

‘I have zero regrets’: I’m 84 and estranged from my two adult sons.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

It made no mention of Lucy Stone, from whom Anthony had been estranged since their falling-out over Stone’s marriage, or the rivalry between Anthony’s National and Stone’s American Woman Suffrage Association.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

“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

That’s the disillusioned soul of the film, entrenching it within the cynicism of the 90s and estranging it from the hopeful revisionism of modern discourse.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2019

She saw that there was no prospect of estranging Astral from Erma; in fact, no prospect of drawing him into a discussion of the subject.

From Overshadowed A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs