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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

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

Another reason I spend more time advising those who estrange vs. those who have been estranged?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2022

Yea, change yon river’s course; estrange   The seven sweet stars; make hate divide   The full moon from the flowing tide,— But this old truth ye cannot change.

From Songs of the Mexican Seas by Joaquin Miller

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

Though time estranges and fate disperses, We have HAD our loves and our loving mercies; Though the gifts of the light in the end are curses, Yet bides the gift of the darkness—sleep!

From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

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

He co-owns all of his known real estate holdings with his estranged wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, property records show.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

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

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

By estranging me from the world, derealization, paradoxically, makes it more real.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022

Though the situation’s murky, the syntax estranging, the form itself is familiar, for most of the book: left-justified lines, grouped into stanzas.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020

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

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

The estranging impression that there is so much evil in man, begins to weaken.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud