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sailors marooned on a desert island
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Recent Examples of marooned
Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
Another defeat in a miserable season left Wolverhampton Wanderers still marooned on two points at the foot of the Premier League table.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
As a tween playwright marooned on an island of his own artistry, Everett Blunck plays Griffin as both liberated by his affinity for the theater but also endlessly frustrated by other people’s dramatic failings.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Local television showed an air force helicopter rescuing three people stranded on the roof of a house marooned by floods, while navy and police used boats to transport residents.
—Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2025
At the old port in Pozzuoli, boats now stand nestled in long grass, marooned on new land that has risen out of the sea.
—Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 25 Nov. 2025
When a mysterious European ship was found marooned in a nearby village, its English pilot, John Blackthorne (Jarvis), shared vital strategic secrets with Toranaga that tipped the scales of power in his favor to win a century-defining civil war.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 17 Nov. 2025
Only two communities remained marooned from access except by helicopter – Petersville in Westmoreland Parish and Ducketts in Saint James Parish, said Alvin Gayle, director general of the office of disaster preparedness and emergency management.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
Driftwood tent shelters appear marooned like shipwrecks, and the beach is scattered with the bones of the giant whales.
—Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
On Thursday, officials in Jamaica deployed emergency crews to help clear roads and drop food and supplies into marooned communities.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
And other than strategic additions that have been added over the years to complicate gameplay, the structure has stayed largely the same for 49 seasons—16-20 strangers, assembled into warring tribes, are marooned on an island, competing for a million-dollar prize.
—Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
Another defeat in a miserable season left Wolverhampton Wanderers still marooned on two points at the foot of the Premier League table.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
As a tween playwright marooned on an island of his own artistry, Everett Blunck plays Griffin as both liberated by his affinity for the theater but also endlessly frustrated by other people’s dramatic failings.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Local television showed an air force helicopter rescuing three people stranded on the roof of a house marooned by floods, while navy and police used boats to transport residents.
—Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2025
At the old port in Pozzuoli, boats now stand nestled in long grass, marooned on new land that has risen out of the sea.
—Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 25 Nov. 2025
When a mysterious European ship was found marooned in a nearby village, its English pilot, John Blackthorne (Jarvis), shared vital strategic secrets with Toranaga that tipped the scales of power in his favor to win a century-defining civil war.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 17 Nov. 2025
Only two communities remained marooned from access except by helicopter – Petersville in Westmoreland Parish and Ducketts in Saint James Parish, said Alvin Gayle, director general of the office of disaster preparedness and emergency management.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 12 Nov. 2025
Driftwood tent shelters appear marooned like shipwrecks, and the beach is scattered with the bones of the giant whales.
—Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marooned
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
Verb
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But here, stranded alongside Bradley Cooper (who has the same deer-in-headlights look), she’s completely lost as a Depression-era woman who goes mad after losing a child and directs her fury at a woman who had an illegitimate son with her husband years earlier.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
8 Nov. 2025
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Researchers hypothesize that Earhart did not crash at sea, but instead landed and was stranded on Nikumaroro Island, later perishing there.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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And honestly, what could be more feeble?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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Their calculations show that a feeble interaction between the inflaton field and elementary particles called gluons would be sufficient to warm up inflation.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The first of the previous massacres in Darfur occurred in the town of El Geneina, in April, 2023; fifteen thousand unarmed civilians were killed.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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The unarmed Yars missile was fired from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia and hit the Kura Missile Test Range on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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That leaves her high and dry, at the mercy of MI5 and the Dogs, but gives Farouk and his cohort Kamal a chance to position themselves at a church for maximum impact.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
29 Oct. 2025
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But when the government cancels a lease, the landlords are left high and dry.—
Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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With themes of resilience, victory, and joy as a healing balm, Joy in the Belly of a Riot is a beautiful manifestation of how poetry has the power to heal and help one overcome pain.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Essence,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Marooned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marooned. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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