estrange
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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
I’m truly fearful he’ll get the idea that you estrange from a family member as easily as you throw away a napkin.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2021
Nothing had served to estrange the brother and sister save time and distance.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
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
Herself from us herself estranges, Herself her mighty tale doth kill, That all things change yet nothing changes.
From Poems - First Series by J. C. (John Collings) Squire
While Tomlinson remains close with some of her mother’s relatives, she has been estranged from her father for five years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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
Murrell - the estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon - was due to appear at the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday for Crown lawyers to attempt to recover the money he embezzled.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 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
I always knew, even when I was estranged from the regent, that all my friends might desert me, all my plans might founder, all my hopes be dashed, but the regent would never abandon me.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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“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
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
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 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
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