as in to leave
to cause to remain behind
sailors marooned on a desert island
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Recent Examples of maroon
Who maroon them in strange, suburban places, not white, unable to be Native.
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
A lot has happened since — so much that, in the time between being ordered to series and making it to air, an attempt to revive the channel’s heyday has been left marooned by circumstances beyond its control.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
Just because she was marooned in Massapequa, did not mean that Lynnie did not have her own singular beach look.
—Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 29 July 2025
Together, the team and family uncover a secret hidden from the world for decades on the island where they have been marooned.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 20 May 2025
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
A lot has happened since — so much that, in the time between being ordered to series and making it to air, an attempt to revive the channel’s heyday has been left marooned by circumstances beyond its control.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
Just because she was marooned in Massapequa, did not mean that Lynnie did not have her own singular beach look.
—Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 29 July 2025
Together, the team and family uncover a secret hidden from the world for decades on the island where they have been marooned.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maroon
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Even leaving these facts aside, neither the doctrinaire socialism nor militant Islam have ever improved any place on earth, and New York City will not be the first.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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To keep her safe Hekate’s mother leaves her in the underworld with the goddess Styx and Hades.—
Amber McBride,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Water was reported above car tires in part of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, some cars were stranded around the region, and in the Riverdale section of the Bronx floodwaters reached the bottom of doors of sedan-style cars, the weather service said in a summary of storm reports.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC news,
30 Oct. 2025
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Last month, emergency workers in Pakistan used drones to find people stranded on rooftops by massive floods.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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His car was later found abandoned, and authorities began searching the area.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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To garrison those vulnerable treasure houses, Britain had to reassign regiments from tours of duty in North America and abandon Philadelphia, the biggest prize the redcoats had taken so far.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Produced by Yann Zenou (YZE) and Nicolas Duval Adassovsky (ADNP/QUAD), the film stars Poelvoorde as Jean Chevalin, a bumbling trickster who accidentally deserts the army in 1940s France and must protect his family from the advancing Nazi threat.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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Cuomo and his panicky allies need the pollsters to be wrong again; maybe with a surge of older voters, maybe if Republican Curtis Sliwa’s supporters desert him.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Maroon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maroon. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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