alienate
verb (used with object)
to make indifferent or hostile.
has been alienating
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present perfect progressiveof alienate (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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However, this person has been alienating colleagues because of how she communicates about these views.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2024
The Wooster Group has been alienating audiences in its own avant-gardist way for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2023
The lack of stadium atmosphere has been alienating but weirdly enlightening, allowing us to glimpse these distant athletes in their unadulterated natural habitat.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 24, 2020
Modernity is alienating, and it has been alienating for a great while; look at an Edward Hopper painting if you think this post-industrial misery has come only since the Internet was invented.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2018
