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
If I revert to my devotion to you, it is to prove that no worldly motives could estrange me from the partner of my miseries.
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall
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
There exists an invisible line that estranges us both emotionally and, often physically, from the rest of the society.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019
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
Herself from us herself estranges, Herself her mighty tale doth kill, That all things change yet nothing changes.
From Poems - First Series by J. C. (John Collings) Squire
For Alexander Maksik, writing about labor and estranged families is personal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
The author admits they spent most of his adult life estranged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Siobhan died in 2014 and the items are being sold by her estranged husband Ian Belcher, who inherited them after her death.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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
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
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
At venues such as the Mudd Club, where he had his first solo exhibition, Tseng was not always dressed in his estranging costume.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 23, 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
The destruction of that desire, or the estranging of oneself from it; 4.
From The Buddhist Catechism by Henry Steel Olcott
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