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Recent Examples of adrift
Emotionally exhausted and adrift, Aubry said goodbye to Survivor and moved on with her life, getting married and having a child.
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 May 2026
Four people and a dog were left adrift in a treacherous ocean inlet when their boat capsized off Oak Island on the North Carolina coast, according to searchers.
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Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
19 May 2026
Few of the film’s ideas truly connect with one another, leaving its lead stars adrift in the process, forcing them to conjure three dimensional details from a script that, intentionally or otherwise, feels paper thin.
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Siddhant Adlakha,
IndieWire,
18 May 2026
Both books deal with young people who are adrift, and both capture a time of rapidly changing mores and politics.
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Chris Hewitt,
Boston Herald,
14 May 2026
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Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 May 2026
Four people and a dog were left adrift in a treacherous ocean inlet when their boat capsized off Oak Island on the North Carolina coast, according to searchers.
—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
19 May 2026
Few of the film’s ideas truly connect with one another, leaving its lead stars adrift in the process, forcing them to conjure three dimensional details from a script that, intentionally or otherwise, feels paper thin.
—
Siddhant Adlakha,
IndieWire,
18 May 2026
Both books deal with young people who are adrift, and both capture a time of rapidly changing mores and politics.
—
Chris Hewitt,
Boston Herald,
14 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for adrift
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There are luxurious high-rise towers overlooking the Mekong River, where entire floors are now deserted following police raids that cleared out the illicit operations hidden there.
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Some areas would remain deserted for over a decade, because of the risk of radiation poisoning.
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It can only be used for spending and budgetary measures and allows for passing controversial legislation along party lines in the narrowly divided chamber.
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At sentencing, the remaining counts — a felony charge of first-degree involuntary manslaughter and a misdemeanor charge of driving the wrong way on a divided highway that resulted in a crash — will also be dismissed, according to the court document.
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The funding infusion represents the second significant capital raised toward the sweeping project, which so far has involved entities connected to Mehta purchasing half a dozen properties on three blocks of Fillmore between Clay and Pine streets, including the forsaken theater.
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Swift rewrites the forsaken lover's fate through her own lens.
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Underdog startups and neglected divisions tell similar stories.
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Cinematographer Guillermo Garza shoots neglected settings like fine art, embracing the grime.
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Caregivers remembered him not as a forgotten man, but as someone impossible to forget.
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Hand creams are often a forgotten but very important part of any anti-aging routine, especially during the cooler months.
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According to the gallery, the 25-minute film is set in a semi-abandoned hotel near Tokyo and reimagines the Greek myth of the goddess Persephone’s abduction by Hades.
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Born on May 13, 1958, in California, Sheets appeared on 163 episodes of Storage Wars between 2010 and 2023, vying with other buyers of abandoned and unopened storage lockers being auctioned.
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In my disjointed sensory puzzle, the CCTV screens hold the next.
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This was the disjointed, mistimed offense that doomed the Spurs.
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When enough shareholders face the same constraint at the same time, price can become disconnected from business value.
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Despite earning roughly $250,000 a year as a software engineer, Michelle Yeung felt increasingly disconnected from the work.
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“Adrift.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adrift. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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