estrange

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"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

Another reason I spend more time advising those who estrange vs. those who have been estranged?

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2022

In his color work, he sometimes accepted ambient blurs of motion to emphasize, and estrange, the stillness of a certain subject amid a street’s commotion.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019

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

We don’t propose to estrange ourselves from the revolutionary movement.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham