as in estrangement
the loss of friendship or affection
after years of alienation from her family, she became reconciled with them when her father fell ill
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The song is about the divisive nature of media and the alienation that results from the echo chamber of negativity, hearing secondhand information and the perception of persecution.
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Taylor Mims, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2025
The reports included accounts of both Jewish and Muslim students dealing with profound grief over the deaths of loved ones, concerns for their safety and feelings of alienation and academic censorship.
—Jeff Winter, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
That sense of alienation, that sense of a slight remove, something bubbling under the surface—that’s as New York a story as glamour or whatever else.
—Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
With its waves of electronica, its foregrounding of style, its pendulum swings between romanticism and alienation, the movie turned out to be one of the harbingers of what many deemed the MTV aesthetic.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2025
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Taylor Mims, Billboard, 11 Apr. 2025
The reports included accounts of both Jewish and Muslim students dealing with profound grief over the deaths of loved ones, concerns for their safety and feelings of alienation and academic censorship.
—Jeff Winter, CNN Money, 2 May 2025
That sense of alienation, that sense of a slight remove, something bubbling under the surface—that’s as New York a story as glamour or whatever else.
—Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
With its waves of electronica, its foregrounding of style, its pendulum swings between romanticism and alienation, the movie turned out to be one of the harbingers of what many deemed the MTV aesthetic.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for alienation
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“Alienation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alienation. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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