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
Novey transports us toward two reckonings: what exactly happened to estrange the women and, later, how Leah will respond to Jean’s legacy of sculptures.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023
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 do not think that it has been much of a drawback in politics, and the minds it would estrange are very few.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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
A mighty duty, sir, and a mighty inspiration impels every one of us to-night to lose in patriotic consecration whatever estranges, whatever divides.
From The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey
When I interview parents who are estranged from their adult children, many say: “My child cut me off out of the blue. I didn’t see it coming.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
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
Southern explained that the brothers "were that estranged that Noel's youngest sons and Liam's sons hadn't met".
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
It made no mention of Lucy Stone, from whom Anthony had been estranged since their falling-out over Stone’s marriage, or the rivalry between Anthony’s National and Stone’s American Woman Suffrage Association.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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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
That’s the disillusioned soul of the film, entrenching it within the cynicism of the 90s and estranging it from the hopeful revisionism of modern discourse.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2019
They spoke on the condition of anonymity over concerns about estranging colleagues.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2018
His journey to Rome in the autumn of 1521 had the result of estranging him from the views of the Protestant leaders.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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