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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)
  • When I asked her father about a relatively estranged family member, I expected to hear a rant about character flaws.†  (source)
  • Why was Saunière's dying wish that his estranged granddaughter find me?†  (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)
    estranged = separated or no longer emotionally close
  • Giving the twins his Triwizard winnings had seemed a simple thing to do at the time, but what if it led to another family row and a Percy-like estrangement?†  (source)
  • It was Rodolphus [estrange, Bellatrix's loyal husband, who on return from Azkaban told me who I was and revealed the prophecy he thought I was destined to fulfill.†  (source)
  • She laughed, a polite but estranging laugh.†  (source)
  • Chris Langan's mother was from San Francisco and was estranged from her family.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • But this affair and all the talk about it did not estrange popular sympathy from the poor idiot.†  (source)
  • She believed in the sincerity of her friend's affection, though it sometimes showed itself in self-interested ways, and she shrank with peculiar reluctance from any risk of estranging it.†  (source)
  • Estranged, disarranged, we spend our darkest hours staring at those pearls, those coral bones.†  (source)
  • He talked about coins—it was the one topic he, could discuss with ease—and continued to cook my breakfasts and dinners; but our estrangement grew worse over time.†  (source)
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