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Anne thought it was truly delightful to go skimming through all this mystery and loveliness with your bosom friend who had been so long estranged. (source)estranged = separated
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I have a son about the same age Alex was, and we've been estranged for a few years now.† (source)
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Estranged, disarranged, we spend our darkest hours staring at those pearls, those coral bones.† (source)
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No child need be lost to self-hate and estrangement.† (source)
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This estrangement was not formalized: I just didn't feel like seeing him, or hearing his voice, so I didn't.† (source)
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I had seen those movies where the patriarch of the family is on his death bed and he calls for his estranged son so that he can make peace before he goes.† (source)
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When I asked her father about a relatively estranged family member, I expected to hear a rant about character flaws.† (source)
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But after having lived there for eight years, off and on, I had come to understand something of its self-imposed estrangement from the outside world.† (source)
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In fact he might even, through all this, have been able to estrange me from my family, and no doubt he hoped to be restored to favour with them; to say nothing of revenging himself on me personally, for he has grounds for supposing that the honour and happiness of Sofya Semyonovna are very precious to me.† (source)
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She laughed, a polite but estranging laugh.† (source)
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We had been estranged from the potential of our own bodies, from the revelation of everything our bodies and minds could accomplish.† (source)
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He told of his inability to write further poetry, of his increasing estrangement from the cybrid impostors, of his retreat into something resembling catatonia combined with "hallucinations" of his true AI existence in the nearly incomprehensible (to a nineteenth-century poet) TechnoCore, and of the ultimate crumbling of the illusion and the abandonment of the "Keats Project."† (source)
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This second meeting might have been expected, one would have supposed, to estrange them still more.† (source)
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He had confined himself to gradually estranging Jean Valjean from his house and to effacing him, as much as possible, from Cosette's mind.† (source)
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Think of Seth Hubbard on October 1 of last year, facing certain death and already determined to speed it up, racked with pain and heavily medicated with painkillers, sad, lonely, single, estranged from his children and grandchildren, a dying, bitter old man who'd given up, and the only person near enough to hear him and console him was Lettie Lang.† (source)
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To add to his misery, the loss of Ariana had led, not to a renewed closeness between Albus and Aberforth, but to an estrangement.† (source)
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