as in displeasing
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as in angering
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 ceding
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 alienating
Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2025
No filmmaker was better-equipped to capture the institutional failures of our economic collapse in 2007-08, as Soderbergh has always been pre-occupied by the alienating relationship between our economic systems and his characters.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
However, scaling too quickly or expanding into the wrong areas can risk alienating the niche market that helped establish your business in the first place.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2025
Too often, successors cling to legacy out of fear—fear of too much change, fear of alienating loyalists, fear of losing what made a brand iconic in the first place.
—Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
The first is the stakes of his reputational bet—rather than alienating himself from progressives or the media, Musk is threatening to meddle with essential government services, such as Social Security, that millions of Americans rely on.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Staying neutral due to fear of alienating consumers is a failing strategy.
—Jeff Fromm, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
As Swisher noted, Musk’s attention-seeking at the time had a secondary effect of alienating him from some of his peers and fans.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Despite alienating some older consumers, the campaign garnered 160 million YouTube views, successfully positioning Jaguar for a younger, progressive market.
—Laurence Lim, WWD, 11 Mar. 2025
Verb
But in the interest of not completely alienating customers with incessant, irrelevant, or personally offensive ads, the social media company is giving users the ability to block advertisers for a year.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2025
No filmmaker was better-equipped to capture the institutional failures of our economic collapse in 2007-08, as Soderbergh has always been pre-occupied by the alienating relationship between our economic systems and his characters.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025
However, scaling too quickly or expanding into the wrong areas can risk alienating the niche market that helped establish your business in the first place.
—Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2025
Too often, successors cling to legacy out of fear—fear of too much change, fear of alienating loyalists, fear of losing what made a brand iconic in the first place.
—Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
The first is the stakes of his reputational bet—rather than alienating himself from progressives or the media, Musk is threatening to meddle with essential government services, such as Social Security, that millions of Americans rely on.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Staying neutral due to fear of alienating consumers is a failing strategy.
—Jeff Fromm, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
As Swisher noted, Musk’s attention-seeking at the time had a secondary effect of alienating him from some of his peers and fans.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2025
Despite alienating some older consumers, the campaign garnered 160 million YouTube views, successfully positioning Jaguar for a younger, progressive market.
—Laurence Lim, WWD, 11 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alienating
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The prequel will introduce his family and girlfriend and the events that led up to his victory, notorious for angering the Capitol elite.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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Reports suggest that some Republican lawmakers are frustrated with Musk’s bluster and that the DOGE approach to slashing the federal bureaucracy is angering constituents and making lawmakers less popular in their districts.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2025
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That same year, facing intimidation by land-hungry settlers, the Shawnee signed another treaty ceding most of their Kansas reservation to the government, leaving the area around the mission to the Methodist church.—
Alfredo Sosa,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Mar. 2025
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There are consequences to Congress ceding wide swaths of its authority to a massive administration state.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
9 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Adaptive facial movements Dynamic facial expressions play a vital role in enhancing communication in social robots, particularly in conveying affective states like excitement or sleepiness.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Dec. 2024
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That festival serves a vital function in the narrative, presenting a key moment in Dylan’s evolution as an artist and conveying the warring reactions to the once-traditional folk performer going electric.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
27 Dec. 2024
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While chores can be healthy for kids, parents will want to keep certain things in mind when assigning them.—
Beth Ann Mayer,
Parents,
13 Mar. 2025
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For example, in addition to assigning workers to picks, the WMS may print labels at print stations that need to be attached to cases.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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The particles are too small, however, to reflect the sun's heat-energy-transferring infrared light.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
23 Dec. 2024
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Assad's departure also led analysts and government officials to claim that Russia may be transferring some of its military assets from Syria's Tartus naval base and Hmeimim air base to Libya.—
Hugh Cameron,
Newsweek,
23 Dec. 2024
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For the Thunder to turn a defensive liability into one of the best defenders in all of basketball, without relinquishing a single draft pick, has to go down as one of the biggest steals of the 2024-2025 NBA season.—
Morten Stig Jensen,
Forbes,
22 Dec. 2024
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There’s that relinquishing control of the messaging, though!—
Mikey O'Connell,
The Hollywood Reporter,
19 Dec. 2024
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“Alienating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alienating. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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