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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

I’m truly fearful he’ll get the idea that you estrange from a family member as easily as you throw away a napkin.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2021

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

There exists an invisible line that estranges us both emotionally and, often physically, from the rest of the society.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019

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

But then he on his side had never been weakly indulgent, to lessen their respect for him; nor unjustly severe, to thwart their affection; or apt to grudge sacrifices, the thing that estranges children's hearts.

From A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac

When Robin Brill walked into a conference for estranged parents this summer in Chicago, she was stunned by the crowd.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

It’s no surprise that Suvorova is estranged from her mother, a topic she covers often on her social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 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

So far estranged, that I did not expect him to come and speak to me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

She last had that estranging experience watching herself on screen when she made The Hours, channelling Virginia Woolf, and watching the world from behind a prosthetic nose.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2018

There is but one way you can possibly defeat her success, and that is by estranging her from the world, and withdrawing her from all intercourse with society.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever