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
"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
I estrange myself from the Baron, lest I should be too partial to the numerous good qualities I cannot but see, and yet which it would be dangerous to contemplate too often.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
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
With respect to divorce, a woman can demand by law and right to be separated from her husband, or divorced, whenever he ill-treats her, or estranges himself from her.
From Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. by James Richardson
When Robin Brill walked into a conference for estranged parents this summer in Chicago, she was stunned by the crowd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Adrienne Walker, who plays Miriam, Dan’s estranged wife, and Charlotte MacLeod, who plays Violet, Dan’s disaffected daughter, endow their characters with more lineaments than the book provides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Maintaining an openness to people — and a willingness to strengthen connections with everyone from distant or estranged family members to friends, acquaintances and strangers — enables you to benefit from more social interaction.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Murrell - the estranged husband of Nicola Sturgeon - was due to appear at the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday for Crown lawyers to attempt to recover the money he embezzled.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
On February 19, Pa writes to Theo that he's worried Vincent is becoming estranged from him and Ma again.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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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
They spoke on the condition of anonymity over concerns about estranging colleagues.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 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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