1
as in angers
to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring
such angry outbursts will rapidly alien any friends you might possibly have left
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2
as in transfers
to give over the legal possession or ownership of
the couple plans to alien the adjoining house lot to their eldest son
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What angers me is thinking about what could have been.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
12 Dec. 2025 -
And nothing angers the Survivor gods more than reality TV hubris.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 Oct. 2025
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The transfer shell game The problems compound when ICE transfers detainees without notice, a practice attorneys said is a kind of shell game designed to frustrate legal challenges.—
Ben Fenwick,
Oklahoma Watch,
13 Feb. 2026
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Save Your Pay, which transfers a percentage of each paycheck into savings, and Save Your Change, which rounds up checking account transactions to the nearest dollar and transfers the difference to savings.—
Andreina Rodriguez,
CNBC,
10 Feb. 2026
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If the fear is that foreigners are coming here to take our jobs and ruin beloved American traditions, there are plenty of nonnative artists to grouse about.—
Lorraine Ali,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Few foreigners want to spend their vacation in a place where there no lights at night, and air conditioning comes and goes.—
Andres Oppenheimer,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
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No one exemplifies that, and infuriates Twins fans more, than Ortiz.—
Brian Hall,
Twin Cities,
5 Feb. 2026
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Unfortunately, Ashur’s idea to achieve this goal infuriates everyone.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
1 Dec. 2025
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The specialization that cedes politics, economics or communication to separate disciplines is, in sociology, an invitation to synthesize and to consider how these broad social processes engage, reinforce or conflict with one another.—
Wendy Nelson Espeland,
Mercury News,
11 Feb. 2026
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The lead-up to Kennedy’s circus of sci-fi fantasists and food bloggers provides an object lesson in how the left cedes fertile political territory to the right.—
Annie Levin,
Washington Post,
10 Feb. 2026
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This Valentine’s Day, Ben Smith and Kelly Dennis will profess their love for each other — and New York City — in front of loved ones, strangers and possibly Batman.—
Andrea Sachs,
Washington Post,
14 Feb. 2026
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Hard Truths premiered at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival and followed Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Pansy, an angry and depressed woman who lashes out at family and strangers, and whose constant criticism slowly isolates her.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
11 Feb. 2026
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The thing that outrages, the thing that shocks, the thing that elicits the greatest response, and the greatest response of all of those emotional reactions is outrage, is fear, is shock, is anger.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
31 Dec. 2025
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Content that outrages, polarizes or triggers anxiety keeps us watching.—
Avital Pardo,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Under current law the Legislature cannot, merely by passing a bill, grant to the attorney general prosecutorial authority that the Texas constitution expressly assigns to district attorneys.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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This year’s House budget revives the idea of the office and assigns it $53 million.—
Lawrence Mower,
Miami Herald,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Aliens.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aliens. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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