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as in angered
to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring
her changed position on the issue surprised and alienated many of her supporters
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as in ceded
to give over the legal possession or ownership of
landowners have a right to alienate their right of ownership—in other words, they can sell the land if they want to
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Recent Examples of alienated
Preston Garrett, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
With most of the studio’s fabled animators having retired and productions being scaled back, Disney entered a dark age of animation marked by edgier stories and alienated audiences.
—Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
And they are increasingly alienated from an élite that takes their buy-in for granted.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
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Adjective
Parents traveling to distant locations for months at a time; alienated wives and husbands and children.
—Preston Garrett, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
With most of the studio’s fabled animators having retired and productions being scaled back, Disney entered a dark age of animation marked by edgier stories and alienated audiences.
—Josh Spiegel, Vulture, 24 July 2024
Verb
Katz suggests that the artists’ apparent desire for a popular hug alienated a cloistered art public.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
And they are increasingly alienated from an élite that takes their buy-in for granted.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alienated
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In story mode, there are a few other people to find on the island, some of whom will be helpful and others hostile.Jason Bennett, arkansasonline.com, 15 Dec. 2024
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In June, a former employee sued Neuralink and accused it of hosting a discriminatory and hostile work environment, claiming that they had not been given proper protective gear while working with the monkeys.William Gavin, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2024
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His amplification of Lee's viewpoints angered Social Security advocates.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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That decision angered Real Madrid so much that its players boycotted the awards ceremony.Steve Price, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Last year Montage ceded its property to Flos B&B Italia Group, which officially opened a B&B Italia there in November.Sofia Celeste, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
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Beckham ceded all control to Uniacke, who turned the walls dark green, and filled the space with twinkling Christmas trees.Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 28 Nov. 2024
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The Christophers is a dark comedy about the estranged children of a once-famous artist who hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be discovered and sold after his death.Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
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Predictably, perhaps, the estranged soul mates are happy together.Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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She was transferred at that point to emergency medical services personnel.Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2024
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The state government, controlled by the army, said 65 people had been killed, and that other casualties had been transferred to nearby Al-Naw Hospital.Reuters, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
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Still, the relationship never became too antagonistic.Tae Kim, CNBC, 5 Dec. 2024
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However, their early rhetoric is setting an antagonistic tone toward federal workers, which threatens to undermine DOGE’s goals.James Broughel, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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Their real problem is the loss of Senate candidates and incumbents who were able to shed the national party label and compete in places that are unfriendly to Democrats.G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2024
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The stock’s gains come despite the former president being viewed as unfriendly to clean energy stocks, which can include electric vehicle manufacturers such as Tesla.Gabrielle Fonrouge,Annika Kim Constantino,Michele Luhn,Ashley Capoot,Julie Coleman,Josephine Rozzelle,Ece Yildirim,Ruxandra Iordache,Dan Mangan,Kevin Breuninger,CJ Haddad, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
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In May, Barone began working as the executive assistant to Ann Bryant, who co-founded a Tahoe nonprofit called BEAR League, in 1998, after a government trapper enraged the community by killing a mother bear and her cub and then lying about it.Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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Pediatricians were enraged in February, for example, when Ladapo left the decision on whether to quarantine children amid a massive measles outbreak to parents.Erika Edwards, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2024
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“Alienated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alienated. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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