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
I resolved to break their engagement and first endeavor to estrange him—from your friendship.
From An Oregon Girl A Tale of American Life in the New West by Alfred Ernest Rice
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, That all things move yet all are still.
From The Three Hills And other Poems by Charles Baudelaire
His estranged wife and former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly insisted she was unaware of the existence of the motorhome.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback has been estranged from his family for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
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
If McCandless felt estranged from his parents and siblings, he found a surrogate family in Westerberg and his employees, most of whom lived in Westerberg's Carthage home.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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
Chu notes that the world is becoming more cognitively estranging.
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
For more than a century it had been an estranging barrier to neighborliness, to courtesy, to broad-mindedness; a barrier to friendship, to Christian charity, to peace.
From The Wall Between by Sara Ware Bassett
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