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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
By the end, he's alienated (sorry) his wife and children, among others. Jesse Hassenger, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026 Angry, alienated men have taken shots at the president, stormed the Capitol, and attacked state legislators in their homes. Rob Wolfe, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
Verb
This centralized approach has increasingly alienated both confederations and FIFA’s own administration. Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026 She was promptly alienated by both the receptionist and the doctor and placed in what appeared to be a dirty linen closet instead of an examination room. Literary Hub, 22 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for alienated
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alienated
Adjective
  • Forecasters said the system is expected to be short-lived because of hostile environmental conditions starting on Friday that will prevent it from developing further.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Electronic warfare systems such as NGJ-MB are carried by aircraft and use advanced electronics to interfere with or counter hostile electromagnetic systems.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • That will make affordable tickets more difficult to find, especially as the tournament reports registering record-breaking visits, and already has angered fans and some players.
    Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2026
  • That angered Michigan Democrats who were frustrated with El-Sayed, and brought Jeffries and other Democrats into the fray, putting the candidate El-Sayed had invested the most in on the defensive.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Why Chelsea ceded so much possession to Brighton is more complex — and an issue that has percolated beneath the surface for most of the BlueCo era.
    Jon Mackenzie, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Meanwhile, Apple has largely ceded the frontier AI model market to competitors such as Google and OpenAI, choosing for now to focus on delivering the new technology through its high-end hardware.
    Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Faced with the dominion of the identical copy, some modern artists chose to celebrate it; others took a more critical, even antagonistic stance.
    Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • In Central America, for example, ants feed on acacia trees, a relationship that, at first glance, appeared purely antagonistic.
    Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The White House’s abrupt decision last week to ease tariffs on 300,000 metric tons — more than 660 million pounds — of foreign beef imports has infuriated American cattle ranchers and congressional Republicans alike.
    Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The heated rhetoric has infuriated and astonished most Canadians; in a recent poll, seventy-six per cent supported the decision of the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, to walk away from trade talks with Washington.
    Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Instead, detectives say the group used falsified invoices and documents and transferred cash into personal bank accounts.
    Chelsea Jones, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Defense lawyers have argued that the CIA’s treatment of Mohammed undermined the voluntariness of his later statements to the FBI, even though those interrogations took place after he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay.
    Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Farocki, who read his Marx closely, predicted a world of labor ever more estranged from its effects.
    Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
  • In a survey of roughly 7,000 estranged parents, one-third believed their adult child’s therapist had influenced or even recommended the decision to cut ties.
    David H. Rosmarin, Time, 29 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Marie-Louise is enraged one minute, subservient the next, bullying the staff while throwing banquets for Nazi officials.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The comment at a rally last Sunday titillated, provoked and enraged different audiences simultaneously, all but guaranteeing saturation news coverage and even more attention.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026

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“Alienated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alienated. Accessed 3 Sep. 2026.

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