estranging
- present participle of estrange.
Example Sentences
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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
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
She last had that estranging experience watching herself on screen when she made The Hours, channelling Virginia Woolf, and watching the world from behind a prosthetic nose.
From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2018
A common motive—each having a different object—instead of estranging, ought rather to unite us?
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne
