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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

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

In the four years and a half during which his ministry had lasted he had done much to estrange his party.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various

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

There exists an invisible line that estranges us both emotionally and, often physically, from the rest of the society.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019

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

In the past nothing dies, nothing changes, In the past all is lovely and still; No grief nor fate that estranges, Nor hope that no life can fulfil, But ethereal shelter from ill.

From Confessions of a Young Man by George (George Augustus) Moore

Young people on Universal Credit who have previously worked for six months, have health issues or care responsibilities or are estranged would be exempt.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

It’s no surprise that Suvorova is estranged from her mother, a topic she covers often on her social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Maintaining an openness to people — and a willingness to strengthen connections with everyone from distant or estranged family members to friends, acquaintances and strangers — enables you to benefit from more social interaction.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

He co-owns all of his known real estate holdings with his estranged wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, property records show.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

Never again shall there be any such league of Elves and Men; for Men multiply and the Firstborn decrease, and the two kindreds are estranged.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

By estranging me from the world, derealization, paradoxically, makes it more real.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022

But the path to that point, the means of establishing what an I.O.C. spokesman called a “parallel world” inside the Games, has had an unmistakably estranging effect.

From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2021

At venues such as the Mudd Club, where he had his first solo exhibition, Tseng was not always dressed in his estranging costume.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 2019

She last had that estranging experience watching herself on screen when she made The Hours, channelling Virginia Woolf, and watching the world from behind a prosthetic nose.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2018

The societies were distinctly understood to be part of the established church, as Wedgwood’s were, and every attempt at estranging them therefrom was sharply reproved; but persecution made their position anomalous.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various