as in leaving
to cause to remain behind
sailors marooned on a desert island
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Recent Examples of marooning
Even as the contestants arrive to begin the season, an important rowing portion of today's marooning challenge remains up in the air due to tumultuous swells.
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Jan. 2026
Its winds, rain and storm surge damaged tens of thousands of homes, as well as hospitals and roads, marooning entire communities and leaving countless people with no electricity and in need of safe shelter.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Hina won the marooning challenge, which led to Uli sending Rizo and Kele sending Alex to compete in another challenge for supplies.
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Jan. 2026
Its winds, rain and storm surge damaged tens of thousands of homes, as well as hospitals and roads, marooning entire communities and leaving countless people with no electricity and in need of safe shelter.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Hina won the marooning challenge, which led to Uli sending Rizo and Kele sending Alex to compete in another challenge for supplies.
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for marooning
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And that majority shrank further after Greene retired in January, leaving her seat vacant for several months as Congress is at a standstill amid a partial government shutdown.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
11 Mar. 2026
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At least one officer with the Los Angeles Police Department shot an allegedly armed man on Tuesday morning, leaving him hospitalized.—
Austin Turner,
CBS News,
10 Mar. 2026
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Texas ended the eighth inning by stranding two runners on base.—
Danny Davis,
Austin American Statesman,
13 Mar. 2026
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The results could help explain mystery mass stranding events at other known hotspots, such as New Zealand, Australia and Massachusetts, which have similar geographies.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
12 Mar. 2026
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More than a dozen other signs reference a former redlight district, the Civil War, and a presidential party abandoning a leaky ship and swimming to shore.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
11 Mar. 2026
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Agents exchanged unverified data, and discussed abandoning English in favor of a machine-native language.—
Victoria Bousis,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2026
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For decades the Fayetteville production site of Chemours, a DuPont spinoff, has been dumping GenX into the river.—
Patrick Sisson,
Scientific American,
9 Mar. 2026
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The Dolphins reached an agreement with Willis a few hours after dumping Tagovailoa — who later agreed to a one-year deal with the Atlanta Falcons — and incurring a record $99 million hit on their salary cap.—
Schuyler Dixon,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Marooning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marooning. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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