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estrange

[ih-streynj] / ɪˈstreɪndʒ /


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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

It serves, O bhikkhus, to repel the unconverted and to estrange them.

From The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus by Carus, Paul

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

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

He performs a vital service that nonetheless estranges him from the very people he’s duty-bound to defend, placeless in his own domain.

From The Guardian Jan. 26, 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

Though time estranges and fate disperses, We have HAD our loves and our loving mercies; Though the gifts of the light in the end are curses, Yet bides the gift of the darkness—sleep!

From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback has been estranged from his family for years.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

The estranged prince and his family, including seven-year-old Archie and five-year-old Lilibet, will stay in a mixture of royal residences and private accommodation during the visit, the source confirmed to AFP.

From Barron's Jun. 27, 2026

Molly Shannon, Ferrell’s frequent scene partner on “SNL,” plays the protagonist’s estranged wife.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

Chris Langan’s mother was from San Francisco and was estranged from her family.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

“Financial derivatives are more cognitively estranging than pennies. Global climate change is more cognitively estranging than yesterday’s local weather.”

From The New Yorker Nov. 6, 2019

Lenz’s film reveals how Kusama’s life has been if anything more estranging than her obsessive work, and the ways in which one informs the other.

From The Guardian Sep. 23, 2018

The destruction of that desire, or the estranging of oneself from it; 4.

From The Buddhist Catechism by Olcott, Henry Steel




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