as in stranded
to cause to remain behind
sailors marooned on a desert island
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Recent Examples of marooned
Alison Herman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2025
Their spaceship, Jupiter 2, crash lands on Priplanus after being damaged, and the crew spends the first season marooned there.
—Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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
Their spaceship, Jupiter 2, crash lands on Priplanus after being damaged, and the crew spends the first season marooned there.
—Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marooned
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The Red Sox got a run back on Masataka Yoshida’s RBI single in the third, but the club later stranded men at the corners in both the fourth and sixth, squandering what turned out to be the club’s last scoring opportunities.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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The two met when Bethany was a teenager on a school trip who got stranded in Warsaw for a month when ash from an Icelandic eruption grounded planes across Europe.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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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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The feeble report all but confirms a Fed interest rate cut later this month and raises at least the possibility of a half point – rather than a typical quarter point - reduction, Saunders said.—
Paul Davidson,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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The Valkyries have sold out each of their 18 home games this season, 18,064 packing out Chase Center regardless of how mighty or feeble the opposition is.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Outside what is today a parking garage, a group of Union soldiers — unarmed and asleep in tents — were trampled by horses and murdered by Quantrill’s raiders.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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Last September, China conducted its first test launch of an unarmed but nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) since the 1980s, during which the missile reached the South Pacific.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The American people overwhelmingly rate Social Security as the most important program in our country and oppose cuts that would leave our seniors high and dry.—
Aliss Higham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Aug. 2025
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Max Monks was left high and dry when 16 Lots Brewing Co. shuttered its locations in Mason and Newport late last year.—
Keith Pandolfi,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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“Marooned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marooned. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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