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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

I’m truly fearful he’ll get the idea that you estrange from a family member as easily as you throw away a napkin.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2021

On this account, the very proud and the very young sometimes let a passing rancor estrange a friend.

From Life's Minor Collisions by Frances Lester Warner

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

“I didn’t see her, and nor was she with her family … It breaks bonds and estranges people.”

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2020

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

Herself from us herself estranges, Herself her mighty tale doth kill, That all things change yet nothing changes, That all things move yet all are still.

From The Three Hills And other Poems by Charles Baudelaire

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

The uproar estranged old friends and drew sharp criticism from Jewish organizations and Holocaust survivors, though it did not derail her career.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

His estranged wife and former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly insisted she was unaware of the existence of the motorhome.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

‘I have zero regrets’: I’m 84 and estranged from my two adult sons.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

He tells her that although they had become estranged, he often thinks of Vincent, “so often volatile and so impassioned, yet for his noble mind and artistic qualities, always worthy of admiration.”

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

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

“Financial derivatives are more cognitively estranging than pennies. Global climate change is more cognitively estranging than yesterday’s local weather.”

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019

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

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2018

I didn't want to find myself the cause of estranging another mother from her son.

From The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie