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Recent Examples of adrift
By keeping parental bonds alive, the charity hopes to break a frequent pattern of an adult’s prison time leaving a child adrift and more likely to be on track for their own path toward a cell.
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
Fraser stars as a down-and-out American actor adrift in Tokyo in Rental Family, which was filmed in Japan.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Stripping millions of their professions risks leaving entire communities adrift, a problem UBI cannot solve.
—Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Frances was no longer a woman adrift.
—Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2025
Fraser stars as a down-and-out American actor adrift in Tokyo in Rental Family, which was filmed in Japan.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Stripping millions of their professions risks leaving entire communities adrift, a problem UBI cannot solve.
—Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Frances was no longer a woman adrift.
—Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adrift
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Just past the cattle-ranching town of Bridgeport in northern California, near the border of Nevada, this deserted mining community is frozen in time along its dusty desert road.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
18 Oct. 2025
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To summarize, the protagonist, lost in hopeless days, eventually stumbles upon a deserted dance hall.—
Billboard Japan,
Billboard,
17 Oct. 2025
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The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus was still a pariah state, recognized only by Turkey; Nicosia was still Europe’s last divided capital.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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But Burns also doesn’t take the conventional wisdom that the America of today is more divided than at any other point since the Revolution.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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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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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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Same premise as the exterior, but even more important: Don’t buy a car with a neglected interior.—
Jimmy Camp,
Oc Register,
4 Aug. 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
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Windass struggled, the sight of the 31-year-old dropping so deep 10 minutes from time to take the ball off Max Cleworth inside his own half summing up how disjointed the visitors had become.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
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And the effort to keep the ball out of the Broncos’ hands wasn’t quite needed, as Denver mustered just one second-half field goal in a disjointed offensive performance.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
12 Oct. 2025
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In June 2025, Stellantis began investigating 2013-2016 Dodge Dart vehicles that underwent the recall remedy and later experienced a disconnected transmission shift cable issue.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
15 Oct. 2025
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The solar panel reportedly became disconnected from a carport located near a walkway where the woman was standing when she was hit.—
Abigail Adams,
PEOPLE,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Adrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adrift. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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