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verb

past tense of alienate

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Recent Examples of alienated
Adjective
As sports leagues have expanded from four channels to an endless array of options that now includes streaming apps, bars and restaurants are forced to make a hard choice that will cost them either money up front, or customers lost/alienated. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 May 2026 In 1987, such genuine earnestness in a song that was actually about something was novel and welcome to listeners like me, who felt alienated by Top 40 radio but were too sheltered to encounter, let alone embrace, hardcore or rap. Dan Kois, Pitchfork, 17 May 2026
Verb
Visiting New York shortly after September 11th, Habermas was alienated by an upsurge of patriotic blather and xenophobia. Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 Cody Campbell and Texas Tech’s image problem By supporting Sorsby, the Red Raiders’ leadership alienated not just those outside their community, but in it. Mac Engel june 12, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for alienated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alienated
Adjective
  • The recruits will be deployed in Malaysia and tested in the hostile jungle environment.
    Matt Minton, Variety, 15 July 2026
  • Ibiza is hostile to new club owners, and Ushuaïa faced the usual onslaught.
    Max Marshall, Vanity Fair, 15 July 2026
Verb
  • However, the cyclops was a son of Poseidon, and this attack angered the sea god.
    Tanya Fedak, Variety, 18 July 2026
  • Traditional funerals in which loved ones wash and prepare bodies have been restricted, which has angered some residents.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 July 2026
Verb
  • England led through Anthony Gordon’s second-half goal, but conceded twice late on after Tuchel ceded territory and momentum with a succession of negative substitutions.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 16 July 2026
  • Gibraltar was ceded to Britain in 1713, but Spain has maintained its sovereignty claim ever since.
    Suman Naishadham, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026
Adjective
  • With this pricey deal for Carlsson, the Ducks’ history of antagonistic negotiations with their free agents has become the defining feature of Verbeek’s front office.
    Greg Beacham, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
  • Trump has long maintained a complicated, often antagonistic relationship with Swift.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 5 July 2026
Verb
  • Even though the Baldonis didn’t name-drop Lively, sources say she’s infuriated by the video.
    Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 14 July 2026
  • The Argentina player who was sent off and infuriated the South American side?
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
Verb
  • Connecticut’s own tax fairness studies also show regressive tax burdens are more easily transferred from one entity to another.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 17 July 2026
  • In the case of the missing children, they may have been trapped under the rubble, separated from their relatives, transferred without immediate communication or belonged to entire families whose whereabouts remain unknown.
    Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
Adjective
  • Runaway follows veteran detective Lou Coleman (Duhamel), who takes a solitary drive into the wilderness after the death of his estranged daughter.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 21 July 2026
  • Harry and his brother, Prince William, have barely seen one another over the last six years and, despite their reunion with the king, there was no meeting between the two estranged brothers.
    Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 15 July 2026
Verb
  • Pierre, a first-generation immigrant from Haiti, said he’s enraged by the deaths and sees them as a reminder that any situation could hit close to home.
    Sara-James Ranta, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2026
  • When Odysseus meets Sinon’s ghost — enraged by the circumstances of his death outside Troy — at the entrance to the underworld during his voyage home, Sinon warns Odysseus of the dangers his family faces back in Ithaca.
    Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026

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“Alienated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alienated. Accessed 23 Jul. 2026.

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