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Recent Examples of adrift
Others, a lifeboat adrift in time.
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Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Adapted from Lawrence Osborne’s novel, the film finds Lord Doyle adrift in the Eastern gambling mecca of Macau as his past and debts catch up with him.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Even more dramatically, the following year, Liverpool started the day third in the league, three points behind Chelsea and two adrift of Birmingham.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
The point is to create a project that can foster greater national unity and social integration specifically targeted to this period when, research shows, kids are becoming adrift and lonely and more prone to radicalization or just dropping out of society altogether.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
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Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Adapted from Lawrence Osborne’s novel, the film finds Lord Doyle adrift in the Eastern gambling mecca of Macau as his past and debts catch up with him.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
Even more dramatically, the following year, Liverpool started the day third in the league, three points behind Chelsea and two adrift of Birmingham.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
The point is to create a project that can foster greater national unity and social integration specifically targeted to this period when, research shows, kids are becoming adrift and lonely and more prone to radicalization or just dropping out of society altogether.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adrift
Adjective
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Vargas nodded at the nearly deserted river.—
Daniel Gonzalez,
AZCentral.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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The streets below looked deserted.—
Simon Shuster,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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European markets fell after a divided Bank of England kept its main interest rate unchanged.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
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It’s supported by a broad coalition of industry leaders, environmentalists, chefs, fishermen and scientists—in a time that feels so divided, this is an awesome example of people coming together.—
Amanda Leland,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Swift rewrites the forsaken lover's fate through her own lens.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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All those lonesome, forsaken, snuffed-out lives.—
Huda Fakhreddine
August 28,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Few sights are as heart-wrenching as a neglected animal in need.—
Allison Moses,
USA Today,
28 Oct. 2025
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Those plans were later abandoned during the pandemic and the house joined Denver’s neglected and derelict building list in 2024.—
Justin Wingerter,
Denver Post,
8 Oct. 2025
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Porter Hodge, for example, is now earning high-leverage opportunities after being a forgotten reliever for most of the year.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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Thousands of abandoned and derelict vessels around the US pose environmental and navigational challenges.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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The 33 towns being considered for this project, which are expected to meet final approval in the coming weeks, are all on the brink of extinction with the number of empty and abandoned houses outnumbering those that are inhabited.—
Barbie Latza Nadeau,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Across the pitch, Newcastle were sloppy and disjointed.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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The whole thing remains completely disjointed and impossible to follow.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Two days later, her car was found on Avery’s lot in a thicket of branches with a disconnected battery.—
Nicole Briese,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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People are emotionally dysregulated, distrustful, and disconnected.—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Adrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adrift. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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