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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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everything quality that creeps into innocuous remarks and becomes the vanguard of estranged feeling.† (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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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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But this affair and all the talk about it did not estrange popular sympathy from the poor idiot.† (source)
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She laughed, a polite but estranging laugh.† (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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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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He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him nearer to his father, to now take a step which should estrange him from that father.† (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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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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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)
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