as in to leave
to cause to remain behind
sailors marooned on a desert island
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Recent Examples of maroon
Thinking of my mother marooned in her house was dismaying to me.
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Nicholas Dawidoff,
New Yorker,
10 May 2026
The oldest sleeper carriage on the Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express, Sleeping Car 3309 was famously marooned in a snow drift sixty miles from Istanbul in 1929.
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Rebekah Peppler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 May 2026
The ship, which was due to head to Spain, was marooned for days off the coast of Cape Verde with close to 150 people on board.
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Sara Moniuszko,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
Eleven years after making the tsunami film, The Impossible, Bayona set his lens upon this tragedy, where 16 passengers were marooned in the icy embrace of an Andean glacier after a Uruguayan plane accident.
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James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Apr. 2026
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Nicholas Dawidoff,
New Yorker,
10 May 2026
The oldest sleeper carriage on the Venice-Simplon-Orient-Express, Sleeping Car 3309 was famously marooned in a snow drift sixty miles from Istanbul in 1929.
—
Rebekah Peppler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 May 2026
The ship, which was due to head to Spain, was marooned for days off the coast of Cape Verde with close to 150 people on board.
—
Sara Moniuszko,
USA Today,
6 May 2026
Eleven years after making the tsunami film, The Impossible, Bayona set his lens upon this tragedy, where 16 passengers were marooned in the icy embrace of an Andean glacier after a Uruguayan plane accident.
—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maroon
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Yet robust economic growth has proved elusive, even as government debt has climbed, leaving successive administrations with little firepower to fix a growing list of related challenges, from crumbling infrastructure to a chronic housing shortage.
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Adis does the right thing and asks to leave the boat.
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Timmy, a humpback whale that was stranded several times in the Baltic Sea this year, captured worldwide interest during a controversial rescue effort.
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During Monday’s loss, López was left stranded on third while the Marlins also didn’t capitalize on Edwards reaching base multiple times.
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One of Wood’s earliest conversations with Reid centered on abandoning the heeled footwear that helped define earlier versions of the character.
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Jessie is thrilled, but her enthusiasm is crushingly fleeting, as Emily abandons Jessie with other items in a donation box on the side of the road.
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Further up Lake Street, there are signs of a slow recovery at the Plaza Mexico, with customers sitting at tables that were deserted during the winter.
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His form may desert him, or injury might intervene.
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“Maroon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maroon. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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