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
Another reason I spend more time advising those who estrange vs. those who have been estranged?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2022
And now let me say to you, Margaret, that your conduct as a wife has tended rather to estrange your husband's heart from you than to win his love.
From The Home Mission by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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
These humours of yours, my beloved child, your froward temper, which estranges you from your friends and sisters, and carries you into the arms of trifling persons, is a disease and perversion of your character.
From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Connop Thirlwall
But I also believe parents shouldn’t give their estranged children the power to negatively control their emotions or lives.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Although my daughter and I were estranged, it was not for lack of care or love,” she said in a statement to “Entertainment Tonight.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
The two brothers have become estranged and reportedly no longer talk.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
That included online messages in which she ranted about her in-laws as well as her estranged husband Simon Patterson, at one point calling him a "deadbeat".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Rumors began to spread that Bobby and his mother were estranged.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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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
Chu notes that the world is becoming more cognitively estranging.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 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 Government,” answered Herr von Knobelsdorff, “would set itself in prejudicial and estranging opposition to the will of the people if it thwarted the Prince's projects.”
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
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