as in infuriated
to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring
she estranged several of her coworkers when she let her promotion go to her head
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Recent Examples of estranged
Britt Clennett, ABC News, 7 July 2025
Men and women have grown estranged from each other.
—John McDermott, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2025
Ian McKellen, Jessica Gunning, Michaela Coel and James Corden star in Soderbergh’s movie about the estranged children of a famous artist who hire a forger to finish their father’s unfinished paintings so they can be sold after his death.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 26 June 2025
Taylor Swift put on a surprise performance for Travis Kelce’s summer training camp Tuesday, the same day Justin Baldoni dropped his case against her estranged bestie Blake Lively, throwing access to Swift’s texts into question.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 25 June 2025
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Verb
Patterson, 50, was charged with murdering three relatives of her estranged husband by serving a beef Wellington laced with toxic death cap mushrooms over lunch in 2023, and attempting to murder a fourth.
—Britt Clennett, ABC News, 7 July 2025
Men and women have grown estranged from each other.
—John McDermott, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2025
Ian McKellen, Jessica Gunning, Michaela Coel and James Corden star in Soderbergh’s movie about the estranged children of a famous artist who hire a forger to finish their father’s unfinished paintings so they can be sold after his death.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 26 June 2025
Taylor Swift put on a surprise performance for Travis Kelce’s summer training camp Tuesday, the same day Justin Baldoni dropped his case against her estranged bestie Blake Lively, throwing access to Swift’s texts into question.
—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for estranged
Adjective
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Henry Cavill’s work in the Snyder-verse, meanwhile, was an intentional but depressing swerve, portraying the Man of Steel as distant and alienated from human society.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
8 July 2025
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Younger voters, especially Gen Z and millennials, who feel alienated from legacy institutions but are energized by tech, innovation, and authenticity.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 July 2025
Verb
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Madrid were angered by a decision in that game to award Espanyol defender Carlos Romero a yellow card for a 60th-minute challenge on Kylian Mbappe, which was not upgraded to a red card by VAR.—
Guillermo Rai,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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That meeting angered Israeli officials, and reportedly Dermer in particular.—
Alex Marquardt,
CNN Money,
10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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There’s plenty implied by brief conversations and Hailey’s attitude, but questions about who these people are — and their role beyond that of antagonistic foils to our central crew — linger, detracting from the power of this otherwise fine film.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
3 July 2025
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This one's perfect for those who love a creature feature as antagonistic gigantic alligators swarm the floodwaters that engulf a home where a young woman lives with her father.—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
Adjective
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Forced to work in a more hostile environment than.when it was first established in 2019, the mission faces limited options for evacuations due to the ongoing suspension of international commercial flights, and mobility, because of gangs’ ongoing gang encirclement of Port-au-Prince.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
14 July 2025
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From retail shops to corner bodegas and independent grocery stores, the past few years have not only forced small business owners to confront staggering economic challenges, but also a needlessly hostile regulatory environment brought on by out-of-touch policymakers.—
Tosha Miller,
New York Daily News,
12 July 2025
Verb
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The sketch opened with Mikey Day as Jesus, recreating the scene from the Bible in which Christ visits the temple and gets enraged at seeing money changers transacting business within its walls.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
13 Apr. 2025
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While there, Jesus visited the temple and enraged upon seeing money changers transacting business within its sacred walls, expelled them all.—
McKinley Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Apr. 2025
Verb
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The policy outraged customers as going-out-of-business sales continue and some argued there was little notice to redeem their store value.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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The move caught White House officials off guard and outraged some supporters of the president, who had been promised that more details would be made public.—
Katherine Faulders,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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In November, two fiber-optic Baltic Sea cables were severed.—
Rebecca Rosman,
NPR,
31 Dec. 2024
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Iran’s land bridge to Hezbollah has been severed by the fall of Syria’s Assad regime.—
Dina Kraft,
The Christian Science Monitor,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Estranged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/estranged. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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