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
And the result of your labours," cried the captain of the Port Watch, "has been to estrange our master from all his friends and to land him in incessant troubles.
From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton
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
Believe me, there's nothing estranges a woman's affection so rapidly as that kind of studied neglect.
From The Simpkins Plot by George A. Birmingham
The author admits they spent most of his adult life estranged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Wiley has denied similar allegations from his estranged wife and others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 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
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
Hell could be no more lonely or hopeless, no more agonizingly estranged from the world of order and harmony.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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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
“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
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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