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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

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’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

But I believe you are seeking to estrange yourself from us.

From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)

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

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 Moore, George (George Augustus)

Rodgers also has been estranged from his parents and brothers for quite some time now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Murrell - the estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon - used the funds to buy goods ranging from cars and a motorhome to kitchenware and toiletries.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

Trudeau, who split from his wife, Sophie, in August 2023, shares three children with his estranged spouse, all of whom are currently said to be living with their mother in Montreal.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026

She didn’t know, because I never told her, that my friends were a bit estranged.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

“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

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

It harmed no one, and far from estranging me from myself, rather enriched my inner life.

From A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Heyse, Paul