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
The knight asks if he knows who the lady is, “Par la foy que vous deuez o dieu,” fait le cheuallier estrange, “scauez vous bien qui la dame est que vous regardez?”
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
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 Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
His estranged wife and former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly insisted she was unaware of the existence of the motorhome.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
‘I have zero regrets’: I’m 84 and estranged from my two adult sons.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
When her mentally ill mother goes missing, yet again, Lila must return to the hometown she loathed to search for her, but this time she must also deal with her estranged father, John “Dix” Dixon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Among some 7,000 estranged parents surveyed in April a third believed their adult child’s therapist had influenced or recommended the decision to end the relationship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Chris Langan’s mother was from San Francisco and was estranged from her family.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
They spoke on the condition of anonymity over concerns about estranging colleagues.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2018
So Munza's children are dark or bright, lovely or estranging, according as Meermut or Nōōma prevails in their natures.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
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