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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 can't tell you how it distresses me to see him estrange his best friends as he does.

From The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

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

“I didn’t see her, and nor was she with her family … It breaks bonds and estranges people.”

From The Guardian ● Dec. 13, 2020

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

But then he on his side had never been weakly indulgent, to lessen their respect for him; nor unjustly severe, to thwart their affection; or apt to grudge sacrifices, the thing that estranges children's hearts.

From A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac

Southern explained that the brothers "were that estranged that Noel's youngest sons and Liam's sons hadn't met".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

He co-owns all of his known real estate holdings with his estranged wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, property records show.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

Psychiatrists and people close to Clancy, as well as her estranged husband, described her distress during the five-week trial.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

In 2021, Meghan won a High Court ruling against the Mail on Sunday after the paper published excerpts from a private letter she had written to her estranged father in 2019.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

So far estranged, that I did not expect him to come and speak to me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022

“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

That’s the disillusioned soul of the film, entrenching it within the cynicism of the 90s and estranging it from the hopeful revisionism of modern discourse.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2019

They spoke on the condition of anonymity over concerns about estranging colleagues.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2018

She should reflect that many of the lords by whom she was now supported, a part of the Privy Council, and the people of London, were Protestants, and guard against estranging them.

From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke