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as in infuriates
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 cedes
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 alienates
This relentless pursuit of holiday perfection alienates Claire from her eldest daughter and fuels her own stress and anguish, too.
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Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 9 Dec. 2025
This both alienates those who built that culture and ignores the real-world context where changes must be integrated.
—Big Think, 12 Nov. 2025
Singling us out as victims of multiracialism alienates us from our fellow-South Africans and harms relationships that have been fostered over the past 30 years.
—Kate Bartlett, NPR, 10 Nov. 2025
That alienates a lot of people.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2025
Pew noted Democrats’ views grew more negative toward Republicans, fostering hostility that alienates swing voters.
—Nafees Alam, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2025
Pew noted Democrats’ views grew more negative toward Republicans, fostering hostility that alienates swing voters.
—Nafees Alam, Boston Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
Writer-director Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship, which cast him as a lonely guy who befriends, alienates, then becomes fixated on a cool neighbor (Paul Rudd), has some great moments but falters midway through due to a predictable plot.
—Judy Berman, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
However, this same process often alienates the underbanked.
—Akhil Gupta, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alienates
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Investigative reporting is bad enough; often what really infuriates him is jokes.—
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Elsewhere, the photo of Cartman is a reference to his reaction of Clyde’s incendiary new podcast that has a right wing theme that infuriates the perpetual instigator.—
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Zelensky doesn’t have the domestic backing necessary for a deal that cedes territory.—
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The other major stumbling block is the future of Ukraine’s Donbas region, which Russia is demanding Kyiv cedes control of as a condition of the deal.—
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What angers me is thinking about what could have been.—
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And nothing angers the Survivor gods more than reality TV hubris.—
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In a short almond shape, this set conveys quiet confidence and sophistication.—
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Even just sitting quietly at his side, the Irish actress conveys the healing power of human connection in several quietly profound scenes that course-correct his attitudes on life.—
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While this violation enrages the village’s women, the men who make up the Panchayat (village council) try and fail to cast her out of town.—
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The funniest part to me is that amid this violence — as someone is literally trying to kill him — the thing that enrages Beom-mo the most is when his wife’s top starts to slip down.—
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Decathlon specially manufactures shoes for him that are identical except for one key trait—heel-toe drop, say—and then Malisoux randomly assigns them to runners and monitors their injury rates.—
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Once a petition is filed, a clerk receives it, assigns a case number, and sends it to a judge or court.—
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As Buffett relinquishes the helm, investors are increasingly focused on what disappears with him.—
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The first rule of power politics is that nobody relinquishes authority willingly.—
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Such bubbles — when stock valuations run far ahead of underlying fundamentals — can set the stage for sharp market corrections if investor sentiment sours.—
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Starbucks is the latest foreign retail business to enlist a local partner to turn around their ailing fortunes in China as a persistent property slump sours consumer appetite for everything from premium luxury goods to ice creams.—
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“Alienates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alienates. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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