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
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
Nothing had served to estrange the brother and sister save time and distance.
From Carolyn of the Corners by Ruth Belmore Endicott
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
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
Estranged parents—such as Laura Wellington, aka Doormat Mom—say that estranged children are misguided and spoiled.
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
First, through some quirk of circumstance, he had become estranged from the religion and the folk culture of his race.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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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
His journey to Rome in the autumn of 1521 had the result of estranging him from the views of the Protestant leaders.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
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