grow apart
phrasal verb
grew apart; grown apart; growing apart; grows apart
: to become less friendly or emotionally close as time passes : to become distant from someone
My wife and I have grown apart over the years.
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Instead, writer Bekah Brunstetter made Noah and Allie's romance feel grounded and endlessly charming, allowing both characters to wrestle with their own desires and the space to grow apart and together throughout its runtime.
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Perhaps then the problem isn’t that America’s colleges and the country’s population have grown apart.
—Adrian Daub / Made By History, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
Marriages on track for divorce are featured in Queen of Tears, where Kim Soo-hyun and Kim Ji-won are a couple who have grown apart, and in When The Phone Rings, where Yoo Yeon-seok and his wife, played by Chae Soo-bin, cannot communicate, only in part because of her selective mutism.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The two, nothing alike, were once close, practically brothers, but have grown apart.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2024
And some people grow together and some people grow apart.
—Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Mostly, these women — who have grown apart, but aren’t quite estranged — go at each other.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
Julie Bowen's sons are growing up — and growing apart from their mom.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2024
Funny, fresh, and full of heart, ADULT BEST FRIENDS is the first feature from the duo, who drew from their own relationship to capture the joy of life with a best friend and the angst of potentially growing apart.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2024
Perhaps then the problem isn’t that America’s colleges and the country’s population have grown apart.
—Adrian Daub / Made By History, TIME, 3 Sep. 2024
Marriages on track for divorce are featured in Queen of Tears, where Kim Soo-hyun and Kim Ji-won are a couple who have grown apart, and in When The Phone Rings, where Yoo Yeon-seok and his wife, played by Chae Soo-bin, cannot communicate, only in part because of her selective mutism.
—Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
The two, nothing alike, were once close, practically brothers, but have grown apart.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Nov. 2024
And some people grow together and some people grow apart.
—Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Mostly, these women — who have grown apart, but aren’t quite estranged — go at each other.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024
Julie Bowen's sons are growing up — and growing apart from their mom.
—Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2024
Funny, fresh, and full of heart, ADULT BEST FRIENDS is the first feature from the duo, who drew from their own relationship to capture the joy of life with a best friend and the angst of potentially growing apart.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
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“Grow apart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grow%20apart. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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