aliened

past tense of alien

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for aliened
Verb
  • As the 2024 election strongly indicated, Democrats alienated a sizable share of the electorate with their recent move to the left.
    Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 26 Sep. 2025
  • More of the faculty lounge policies that have alienated such families.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • There were the obvious errors — 19 in the final 29 games of the season — that ceded free bases, provided extra runners and prolonged innings.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In fact, the Dolphins have ceded three touchdowns to quarterbacks through three games.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The proposal has run into challenges, including far-right ministers in Israel being infuriated that the plan would let Palestinians stay in Gaza and not forcibly displaced.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The trip infuriated China, which tells other countries to avoid official engagements with Taiwan, and triggered massive Chinese military exercises in waters and airspace around the island.
    Reuters, NBC news, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The culture of the time is conveyed prettily but broadly, through wonderfully detailed sets (by production designer Christina Moore) and costumes (by costume designer Gabriela Yiaxis) and occasional montages of soldiers or stockbrokers or punk rockers.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • There was little the Washington Commanders could say (or would say) after a dismal 34-27 loss to the Atlanta Falcons that felt more lopsided than the score conveyed.
    Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the wake of recent reports linking them again, Kate's ex-husband Jon and estranged son, Collin Gosselin, called her out publicly.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In the play, Farrow played Sharon, a lonely Iowa woman – estranged from her adult son, divorced from her husband – who decides to take a boarder into her large farmhouse.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The seven Benton County circuit judges recused from the case, and it has been assigned to Jim Spears, a retired circuit judge.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Once there, she was assigned a bare mattress on the floor and denied religious accommodations, including Halal meals, her lawyers said.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Visits by previous prime ministers have angered neighboring countries and proven to be a flashpoint for Japan and China.
    Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Comments the host made after the murder of right wing activist and influencer Charlie Kirk angered MAGA supporters and saw the nation’s largest station group, Nexstar – which has its own mega merger up for review at the FCC – preempt the late night staple.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • He was sent to Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane (part of what is now the Dodge Correctional Institution) in Waupun and later transferred to the Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison.
    JR Radcliffe, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • He was sent to Central State Hospital for the Criminally Insane (part of what is now the Dodge Correctional Institution) in Waupun and later transferred to the Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison.
    JR Radcliffe, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
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“Aliened.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aliened. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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