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to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring
she estranged several of her coworkers when she let her promotion go to her head
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Recent Examples of estranged
David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Shifting Gears is also bringing back Allen’s Last Man Standing wife Nancy Travis for an episode airing this Wednesday (8/7c, ABC), and Raising Hope alum Lucas Neff joined the cast earlier this month as Jimmy, the estranged husband of Kat Dennings’ Riley.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 11 Feb. 2025
Moldovan journalist Lina receives a video message from her estranged father, a migrant worker in Italy, seeking help from his abusive employer.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
Mamie, 41, who Streep, 75, shares with estranged husband Don Gummer, filed for divorce from Mehar Sethi on Thursday, Feb. 6, according to documents obtained by PEOPLE.
—Julia Moore, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
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One of the brothers still holds a decades-long grudge against the other, and Hal’s estranged teenage son Petey (Colin O’Brien) also finds himself in the middle of a family legacy colored by carnage, but the narrative starts to feel like its beside the point.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2025
Shifting Gears is also bringing back Allen’s Last Man Standing wife Nancy Travis for an episode airing this Wednesday (8/7c, ABC), and Raising Hope alum Lucas Neff joined the cast earlier this month as Jimmy, the estranged husband of Kat Dennings’ Riley.
—Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 11 Feb. 2025
Moldovan journalist Lina receives a video message from her estranged father, a migrant worker in Italy, seeking help from his abusive employer.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
Mamie, 41, who Streep, 75, shares with estranged husband Don Gummer, filed for divorce from Mehar Sethi on Thursday, Feb. 6, according to documents obtained by PEOPLE.
—Julia Moore, People.com, 7 Feb. 2025
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Tesla's share price has plummeted 40% from its December peak, and its market value has fallen below $1 trillion as the EV giant faces stiffer competition from rivals and cooling interest from alienated shoppers.—
Alan Neuhauser,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
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His administration has frozen foreign aid, threatened to take control of other countries’ sovereign territory, exited key international bodies and alienated Europe with an embrace of Russia.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN,
26 Feb. 2025
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And it may be judged as a gauge of whether those endorsements from Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk helped legitimize the party and gave it broader appeal, or potentially backfired, given the Trump administration’s newly antagonistic relationship with Germany and Europe.—
Christopher F. Schuetze,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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In the film, Faizon's character maintains an antagonistic relationship with Will Ferrell's Buddy the Elf but begrudgingly respects his work in the store.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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The sequence of events clearly angered Bain.—
Cristóbal Reyes,
Orlando Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2025
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The move angered fans, and a scandal over offensive remarks Richards had made on a podcast led him to quit before his episodes aired.—
Stephen Battaglio,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Jan. 2025
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In a notable thawing of tensions between Russia and the U.S., Trump even promised to visit Moscow, and said Putin would be welcome in Washington, D.C. The president has also become increasingly hostile toward Ukraine.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
20 Feb. 2025
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China’s relentless nuclear buildup, its hostile espionage operations, its militant rhetoric, and, above all, its support for Russia suggest that Xi has already made his call and that a confrontation with the United States is inevitable.—
Sergey Radchenko,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Feb. 2025
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The newspaper includes the story of how Brando was enraged to discover his voice had been dubbed by an Italian actor for the local version.—
Caroline Frost,
Deadline,
5 Jan. 2025
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But conservatives said they were enraged by the legislation.—
Catie Edmondson,
New York Times,
18 Dec. 2024
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Aliso Canyon likely to stay open for years; residents outraged.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Dec. 2024
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As House members scrambled to pass a stopgap spending plan Friday, lawmakers removed legislation that would have fully funded the World Trade Center Health Program through 2040, outraged 9/11 advocates said.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
20 Dec. 2024
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In November, two fiber-optic Baltic Sea cables were severed.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
31 Dec. 2024
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Iran’s land bridge to Hezbollah has been severed by the fall of Syria’s Assad regime.—
Dina Kraft,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Estranged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/estranged. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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