estrange
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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
Hval’s aim seems not to offend but to estrange, creating distance between herself and the listener; her narrators are unreliable but fascinating.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 15, 2015
Thank goodness they’re not living with you anymore, and you don’t want to have a falling out that would estrange you from your nephew.
From Slate • Mar. 31, 2015
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 Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
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