as in estrangement
the loss of friendship or affection
after years of alienation from her family, she became reconciled with them when her father fell ill
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Some individuals’ self-destructive dependence on AI to make sense of the world through religious prophecy, sci-fi technobabble, conspiracy theories, or all of the above has led to family rifts, divorces, and gradual alienation from society itself.
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025
What this means is that getting an injunction prohibiting the debtors' alienation of their interests was a nice thing, and certainly should deter the debtors from trying under penalty of contempt, the creditor would have been able to collect distributions anyway.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
This bleak reality and its consequences explain the growing alienation of many of even Israel’s strongest international allies.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 29 July 2025
On that and subsequent albums like Forces of Victory, Bass Culture, and Making History, Johnson, who was already a published poet, established himself as an especially militant chronicler of the alienation of Black British youth.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2025
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2025
What this means is that getting an injunction prohibiting the debtors' alienation of their interests was a nice thing, and certainly should deter the debtors from trying under penalty of contempt, the creditor would have been able to collect distributions anyway.
—Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025
This bleak reality and its consequences explain the growing alienation of many of even Israel’s strongest international allies.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 29 July 2025
On that and subsequent albums like Forces of Victory, Bass Culture, and Making History, Johnson, who was already a published poet, established himself as an especially militant chronicler of the alienation of Black British youth.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 24 July 2025
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