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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

If I revert to my devotion to you, it is to prove that no worldly motives could estrange me from the partner of my miseries.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall

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

In my case, the monthly annuity for my estranged daughter will be a reminder, every month for the rest of her life, that her father was still there and still cared about her.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026

“Although my daughter and I were estranged, it was not for lack of care or love,” she said in a statement to “Entertainment Tonight.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The two brothers have become estranged and reportedly no longer talk.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

That included online messages in which she ranted about her in-laws as well as her estranged husband Simon Patterson, at one point calling him a "deadbeat".

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

I had seen those movies where the patriarch of the family is on his death bed and he calls for his estranged son so that he can make peace before he goes.

From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom

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

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022

At venues such as the Mudd Club, where he had his first solo exhibition, Tseng was not always dressed in his estranging costume.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 2019

They spoke on the condition of anonymity over concerns about estranging colleagues.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2018

The deliberate mystery and estranging subterranean location of cave paintings suggests that the origins of art have much more to do with religion than sex.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2016

Could it be that he was comparing Angelica with Mary, and that, for the moment at least, Mary's lack of feminine charm, was estranging him?

From The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow