estrange
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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
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 would be extremely surprised if your weird in-laws decide to permanently estrange themselves from your granddaughter over this, but odder things have happened.
From Slate • Nov. 1, 2019
The immutable fact of their friendship accommodates conflict that could fracture a marriage or estrange a parent.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 4, 2014
Pleust � Dieu qu'elle n'eust iamais est� rompu�, nous ne souffririons pas � present les calamitez qui nous font gemir et donneront vn estrange empeschement � la conuersion de ces peuples.
From History of the Discovery of the Northwest by John Nicolet in 1634 With a Sketch of his Life by Butterfield, Consul Willshire
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