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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

Novey transports us toward two reckonings: what exactly happened to estrange the women and, later, how Leah will respond to Jean’s legacy of sculptures.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2023

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 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 Cavendish, Georgiana

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

And the harshness of your brother estranges no small number from the study of divinity.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius

Steel workers who backed Nippon Steel’s purchase of the company still feel estranged from the union’s leadership more than a year after the sale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

‘I have zero regrets’: I’m 84 and estranged from my two adult sons.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

In an interview with the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg last month Murrell's estranged wife and former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she had no "conscious memory" of ever seeing the luxury vehicle.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

People she met included a widow estranged from her adult children over financial woes, who stored piles of their belongings at their mother's home.

From Barron's ● Jun. 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

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

“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

We were of cross-grained stuff, if I may say so, dour and tough and ill to match with common deal, and our roots were sunk in the restless, estranging sea.

From Aliens by McFee, William