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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

After that, people began to estrange them, and to rouse her against him.

From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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

“I didn’t see her, and nor was she with her family … It breaks bonds and estranges people.”

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2020

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

Believe me, there's nothing estranges a woman's affection so rapidly as that kind of studied neglect.

From The Simpkins Plot by George A. Birmingham

For Alexander Maksik, writing about labor and estranged families is personal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The author admits they spent most of his adult life estranged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Siobhan died in 2014 and the items are being sold by her estranged husband Ian Belcher, who inherited them after her death.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Meghan, who has been estranged from her father since before her 2018 wedding, said Friday that she had kept him away from Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to protect them.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

Rumors began to spread that Bobby and his mother were estranged.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

“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

These are not cognitively estranging phenomena in the manner of cyberspace, for instance, the technical workings of which most of us simply don’t understand.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019

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

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2018

And bade betwixt their shores to be The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold