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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

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

“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

And the harshness of your brother estranges no small number from the study of divinity.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus

Nicola Sturgeon said she has not spoken to her estranged husband since he was jailed for embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP while serving as its chief executive.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

The uproar estranged old friends and drew sharp criticism from Jewish organizations and Holocaust survivors, though it did not derail her career.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

‘I have zero regrets’: I’m 84 and estranged from my two adult sons.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Next to her were Pierrot and Jackson, lankier by five or six inches, wedged between the outlines of their estranged parents.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Opponents of the monarchy who have taken a less diplomatic position — criticizing the public for falling victim to establishment groupthink, for example — have been called out by other republicans for estranging would-be allies.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

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

God bade betwixt ‘our’ shores to be The unplumb’d, salt, estranging sea.”

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. Chadwick