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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

You speak in your letter about 'trickery'—used to estrange us!

From The Lady of the Mount by Frederic Stewart Isham

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

Our loquacity estranges the Englishman, his silence estranges us.

From A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge by Owen Wister

In my case, the monthly annuity for my estranged daughter will be a reminder, every month for the rest of her life, that her father was still there and still cared about her.

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

Adapted from her thesis, the story follows a civil engineer in Sacramento named Luther who grows estranged from his family in the wake of an earthquake.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

The two brothers have become estranged and reportedly no longer talk.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Fumulani was singing one of his most beloved songs, “Sister,” about his estranged wife.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba

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

They spoke on the condition of anonymity over concerns about estranging colleagues.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2018

The deliberate mystery and estranging subterranean location of cave paintings suggests that the origins of art have much more to do with religion than sex.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2016

This had naturally had the effect of estranging Elsie completely from her.

From A Vendetta of the Desert by W. C. (William Charles) Scully