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Alienate meaning
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign
Example sentences (20)
Alienate them until they fix their shit or go out of business.
All denial does is further alienate victims and continue the cycle of abuse.
Alongside her growing stage presence, Hannah also started auditioning for more and more TV and film roles -having made her big screen debut in 2008's How To Lose Friends and Alienate People.
An ownership group willing to alienate Trevor Linden, one of this franchise’s few heroes, in order to try to squeeze a few quick bucks out of an aging core and to prop-up a GM in Jim Benning that was obviously out of his depth.
But he also emphasized that refusing to allow such aid to arrive would fill potential partners for peace with anger and alienate them.
But in seeking to avoid blame for his role in the Republican underperformance last year, he may alienate primary voters next year.
But it also would be short-sighted, the kind of move that might alienate more fans than it’s worth.
In addition to European governments, observers have also Washington for its weak response to Saied’s progressive authoritarian actions as well as for its decision to effectively alienate Saied’s regime by slashing U.S. aid to the country in half.
In some cases there have even been attempts to alienate her from her own creation like last year’s reunion of the cast and crew of the “Harry Potter” films.
In the early years of the U.S. invasion, Washington was reluctant to push for poppy eradication, aware this would alienate rural communities and drive them closer to the Taliban; reports even of U.S. Marines guarding poppy fields for farmers.
Is there a risk that targeting could prove counterproductive and alienate some parents?
It’s a real thing, as any parent with more than one child knows, and it can either motivate a kid to work harder or alienate them.
Now, it appears to alienate every user, irrespective of their educational level.
So much of this movie is worried about adhering to the norms of other superhero films or rendering characters so blandly they won’t alienate any viewers.
That could alienate the Greens as well as many of Mr Yousaf’s other colleagues.
The backlash against Scott was a reminder that the GOP's traditional anti-union positions could alienate the same working-class voters in the same Midwestern battlegrounds they need to win the presidency in 2024.
The former can easily alienate a classmate who truly does not know the course material, whereas the latter encourages a helpful and genuine discourse.
They had highlighted the lengthy timeframe needed for the City to obtain approval from the State legislature to “alienate” the parkland.
To associate all community programming and volunteer opportunities with faith has the potential to alienate the 38% of Saint Mary’s students who do not identify as Catholic.
Alienate them and this new GOP renaissance will be short-lived.