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alienated

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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
  • They also have been angered by Kennedy’s attempts to link vaccines to autism, going against decades of research that show no such link, and his framing of autism as a debilitating disease.
    Annie Ma, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • They've also been angered by Kennedy's attempts to link vaccines to autism, going against decades of research that show no such link, and his framing of autism as a debilitating disease.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Liberatore has ceded 17 homers in 18 starts this year.
    Josh Shepardson, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
  • Finally, today – at the age of 40 and second only to LeBron James as the oldest active NBA player – Lowry has ceded the court.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 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
  • De Niro and Scott are on hand as an estranged father and son who are brought back together when Scott’s character’s young son is abducted after the pair move back to his sleepy hometown after a horrible tragedy.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 14 July 2026
  • His mentor in this essentially comic predicament was his estranged father, the poet James Wright.
    Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Verb
  • The suggestion has enraged many of the victims and fierce opponents of the Islamic Republic who have found refuge in Canada.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • Despite his concessions to the SSPX, Francis enraged many Catholic traditionalists by reversing Benedict's relaxation on celebrating the old Latin Mass for the broader Catholic Church.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026

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“Alienated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alienated. Accessed 20 Jul. 2026.

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