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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

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

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

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

But the absence of everything akin to humanity alarms and estranges me, and to make amends I have not even the faith to believe that all, as with God, is perfectly right.

From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse

For Alexander Maksik, writing about labor and estranged families is personal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The author admits they spent most of his adult life estranged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Siobhan died in 2014 and the items are being sold by her estranged husband Ian Belcher, who inherited them after her death.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

When I first met my late husband, I was shocked to learn that he was estranged from his mother.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

My brother and I got into a bad fight when we were in high school, and we’ve been estranged ever since.

From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander

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

For the present epoch has brought home to all Americans of both continents a fact which has long been known to Canadians and Englishmen, namely that the ocean is no estranging gulf between nations.

From South America and the War by F. A. (Frederick Alexander) Kirkpatrick