1
as in angers
to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring
such angry outbursts will rapidly alien any friends you might possibly have left
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2
as in transfers
to give over the legal possession or ownership of
the couple plans to alien the adjoining house lot to their eldest son
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What angers me is thinking about what could have been.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
12 Dec. 2025 -
And nothing angers the Survivor gods more than reality TV hubris.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
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Using a flashback structure that details Eleanor’s life from the 1950s on, balanced against the present-day story of her two children, Black Cake transfers Wilkerson’s continent- and decades-spanning story to screen.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Jan. 2026
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In these systems, a dye molecule absorbs light and transfers the energy to a catalyst surface.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Dec. 2025
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Denmark plans tougher deportation laws COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Denmark unveiled a legal reform on Friday allowing foreigners who have been sentenced to at least one year of unconditional imprisonment for serious crimes to be deported.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
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To replenish its forces and keep up the pressure on Kyiv, Moscow is offering cash bonuses, freeing convicts from prison and luring foreigners to its army.—
Kamila Hrabchuk,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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No one exemplifies that, and infuriates Twins fans more, than Ortiz.—
Brian Hall,
Twin Cities,
5 Feb. 2026
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Unfortunately, Ashur’s idea to achieve this goal infuriates everyone.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
1 Dec. 2025
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The specialization that cedes politics, economics or communication to separate disciplines is, in sociology, an invitation to synthesize and to consider how these broad social processes engage, reinforce or conflict with one another.—
Wendy Nelson Espeland,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Feb. 2026
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In this case, Davis is more amused than embarrassed, and soon cedes the new man to Winnie.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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With as many as 3,000 federal officers roaming the state this year, some immigrant parents have made a bet that their children are safer riding or walking with white Minnesotans who were strangers just weeks ago — rather than in their own cars or while holding their hands.—
Bianca Vázquez Toness,
Fortune,
6 Feb. 2026
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White settlers and corporations quickly swooped in to tap into the vast natural riches of these new territories, relegating the original inhabitants to being strangers in their own land.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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The thing that outrages, the thing that shocks, the thing that elicits the greatest response, and the greatest response of all of those emotional reactions is outrage, is fear, is shock, is anger.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
31 Dec. 2025
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Content that outrages, polarizes or triggers anxiety keeps us watching.—
Avital Pardo,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Instead of programming each robot separately, Humanoid designed one system that assigns goals, plans actions, and manages execution across the fleet.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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But gradual erosion and acute crisis scenarios deserve more weight than consensus assigns them.—
Güney Yıldız,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Aliens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aliens. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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