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
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
That which estranges you from me, binds me to your house and noble race still more firmly, and with a bond that no earthly power can dissolve.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
‘I have zero regrets’: I’m 84 and estranged from my two adult sons.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 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
Rodgers also has been estranged from his parents and brothers for quite some time now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Her parents split up when she was a child and while she isn't estranged from him, she says they've never been close.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Yet now, how distant, how far estranged we were!
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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By estranging me from the world, derealization, paradoxically, makes it more real.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022
But the path to that point, the means of establishing what an I.O.C. spokesman called a “parallel world” inside the Games, has had an unmistakably estranging effect.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2021
Chu notes that the world is becoming more cognitively estranging.
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
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
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