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alienated

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verb

past tense of alienate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of alienated
Adjective
Trump has launched new military interventions, withdrawn from international institutions, and alienated allies, all while sowing chaos domestically. — David Remnick, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026 Drake, Jay-Z, the Weeknd and other major stars have opted out at times, often for several years, but Mason has worked to bring alienated artists back into the fold, and has usually succeeded. — Jem Aswad, Variety, 29 July 2026
Verb
Carlson had alienated vast swaths of Fox in the run-up to his firing. — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026 Moreover, his conversion to Islam in 2015 alienated some right-wing politicians, including Giorgia Meloni, who is now the nation’s Prime Minister and whose administration has since gone on to praise Buttafuoco. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 2 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for alienated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alienated
Adjective
  • Worse, her estranged sister April (Naomi Watts), a drama queen, and hostile mother, Diane (Dianne Wiest), fly in from their Michigan hair salon to add to Sandra’s suffering.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
  • European authorities have linked Moscow to a rising number of drone incursions, sabotage incidents, cyberattacks, and other hostile acts across the continent in recent months.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • But Trump’s solution, to import 300,000 metric tons of beef and sell it at a reduced cost, angered American ranchers.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Prince Harry’s surprise UK move has reportedly angered several family members.
    — Allison DeGrushe, StyleCaster, 8 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The Haudenosaunee ultimately sued for peace, signing a treaty at Fort Stanwix in 1784, which ceded lands in New York and Pennsylvania, and opened up the Ohio Valley for settlement.
    — Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2026
  • As Iran’s hard-line regime has given way to an even harder-line one, the Administration has effectively ceded control of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most significant waterways.
    — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • These sensual glimmers are no match for the antagonistic sociality of straight male relationships, which, in this novel, quickly convert sympathy or desire into rivalry and aggression.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
  • This evolutionary theory of aging is known as antagonistic pleiotropy.
    — Venki Ramakrishnan, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Sydney Sweeney is no stranger to starring in a controversial ad — and her latest effort has infuriated female athletes, including Olympians.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026
  • But Marcia was beginning to sound like Marcia on the page, Marcia in those essays that both excited and infuriated her readers.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Those transactions generated more than $643,000, which Abplanalp then transferred to his personal account, prosecutors said.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Continue reading … TAX DOLLARS FOR HIRE — Suspects in Haitian president's assassination transferred to Miami, accused of funding plot with COVID fraud.
    — , FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • First runner-up was Italian director Paolo Strippoli’s The Spiral, in which a woman’s estranged mother shows up on her doorstep with a sinister story that explains an incident in their past.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Emma died just a few days after her estranged sister in June 1927 at age 76.
    — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The drama reignited a heated debate over the tech threatening to put human creatives in the industry out of a job, a nightmare scenario that has enraged some of the most influential minds in Hollywood.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Monken has decided to stick with Deshaun Watson as his QB1, a move that has confused and enraged some of the fanbase.
    — Takashi Williams, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

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“Alienated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alienated. Accessed 25 Sep. 2026.

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