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
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
It strikes me, my dear, that you are doing your best to estrange your husband from you—if you speak to him as you are speaking now.
From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
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
In the past nothing dies, nothing changes, In the past all is lovely and still; No grief nor fate that estranges, Nor hope that no life can fulfil, But ethereal shelter from ill.
From Confessions of a Young Man by George (George Augustus) Moore
He and wife Meghan Markle -- who together swapped Britain for California six years ago -- return still estranged from Harry's heir-to-the-throne brother William and wife Princess Catherine.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
One of the trickiest parts about having an estranged child is dealing with estate planning.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
“Although my daughter and I were estranged, it was not for lack of care or love,” she said in a statement to “Entertainment Tonight.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Taron Egerton says he is estranged from his dad after 'pushing ejector seat'
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
As in: When I threw the ball at JB, I think I was estranged from myself, if that’s possible.
From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander
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By estranging me from the world, derealization, paradoxically, makes it more real.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022
But the path to that point, the means of establishing what an I.O.C. spokesman called a “parallel world” inside the Games, has had an unmistakably estranging effect.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2021
“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
To be regarded as the future heir to all this splendor kept those he met in the establishment painfully deferential and created an estranging gulf 'twixt him and all that was human and interesting.
From Christopher and the Clockmakers by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher
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