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estrange

[ih-straynj] / ɪˈstreɪndʒ /


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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

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

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2022

Kept at the minimum, kept in its place, such friction does not estrange.

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

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

Its story turned upon the marriage of the elderly Lord Brumpton to a designing young minx who estranges the nobleman from his son, Lord Hardy, the gentlemanly, poverty-stricken leading man of the piece.

From The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

A source close to the couple confirmed to People at the time that the estranged partners were going through a “rocky” period.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 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

Meghan, who has been estranged from her father since before her 2018 wedding, said Friday that she had kept him away from Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet to protect them.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

I have a son about the same age Alex was, and we've been estranged for a few years now.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Opponents of the monarchy who have taken a less diplomatic position — criticizing the public for falling victim to establishment groupthink, for example — have been called out by other republicans for estranging would-be allies.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

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

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022

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

There is but one way you can possibly defeat her success, and that is by estranging her from the world, and withdrawing her from all intercourse with society.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever


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