as in stranded
resting on the shore or bottom of a body of water
the beached whale had to be helped back out to sea
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Recent Examples of beached
Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
Adjective
Hundreds of sea turtles become beached or stranded every year from injury, disease, illness or environmental threats, the zoo says.
—Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beached
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Schoolchildren play around rusted hulls of fishing boats moored in the desert—quiet memorials to what’s been lost.—
Michael Snyder,
Saveur,
11 Mar. 2026
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In fact, Indian cuisine in general is moored in Ayurveda, an ancient system of holistic health care whose rich history dates back over 5,000 years.—
Kalpana Mohan,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
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Zelenskyy said late Monday that counterattacks by Ukrainian forces at eastern and southern points along the front line have wrecked Moscow's plans for a March offensive.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Mar. 2026
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Zelensky said late Monday that counterattacks by Ukrainian forces at eastern and southern points along the front line have wrecked Moscow’s plans for a March offensive.—
Jill Lawless,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Marriages among the landed and propertied involved legally binding settlements drawn up by lawyers (with no obligation to confidentiality).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Sep. 2025
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Elordi plays Heathcliff, the romantic anti-hero who is discovered on the streets before being taken in by a wealthy member of Britain’s landed gentry, only to fall in love with their daughter.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
3 Sep. 2025
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The launch was the first since a California Starlink launch that ended up with a second-stage failure that grounded the Falcon 9.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 Mar. 2026
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If successful, the X-59 could pave the way for faster cross-country travel without the disruptive noise that grounded earlier supersonic ambitions.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The award-winning film depicts the crisis among refugees who were stranded on the Belarus-Poland border.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2026
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The United Nations has proposed a safety corridor in order to evacuate some 20,000 seafarers stranded aboard ships in the Persian Gulf.—
Raf Sanchez,
NBC news,
19 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Trinity Turner’s shot with four seconds left missed, and Savannah Henderson grabbed the offensive rebound before being tied up by Smith.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Mar. 2026
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Musk’s fortune is currently estimated at about $814 billion, much of it tied up in Tesla shares.—
Barbara Ortutay,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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This reimagining of the classic tale of the white European male shipwrecked on a desert island is brave, funny, wild and spellbinding.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
15 Mar. 2026
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Your host, Miranda, offers a back story to the project that involves her family of scientists being shipwrecked on an island off South America upon which many of the dinosaurs somehow survived to the present day.—
Rob Hubbard,
Twin Cities,
7 Mar. 2026
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“Beached.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beached. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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