marooning

verb

present participle of maroon
as in leaving
to cause to remain behind sailors marooned on a desert island

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Recent Examples of marooning Who The Wall Street Journal reports ordered Starshield slowed down, marooning Ukraine. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026 That many universities have partnered with tech companies to provide students with access to their shiny AI models has only served to rubber stamp and accelerate the tech’s adoption in the classroom, marooning individual instructors to figure out how to work around AI on their own. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 10 June 2026 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. — 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
  1. leaving
  2. stranding
  3. abandoning
  4. dumping
Verb
  • Despite a strong growth forecast for the region, unemployment among the fast-growing youth population remains stubbornly high, leading to political instability and leaving the authorities looking for ways to create more jobs.
    — Martin K.N Siele, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Literally days before leaving office, the former Biden Under Secretary used the stroke of a (digital) pen to inappropriately expand the closed-school discharge period for certain institutions targeted by the previous Administration.
    — Cory Turner, NPR, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of leaving
Verb
  • Has the movie somehow justified, by stranding the poet, the family’s vain but common-sense view of life?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Aaron Ashby, who did his best Houdini impression by stranding multiple Dodgers baserunners in scoring position, recorded the three-inning save in the clinching win.
    — Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of stranding
Verb
  • Yet becoming independent rarely means abandoning the parent company’s entire incentive framework.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Most of the royal family is not willing to be seen with him in public, so Fergie isn’t the only one allegedly abandoning him.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of abandoning
Verb
  • In an already tenuous industry marked by razor-thin margins, high rents and increasing costs for goods and labor, some of the Southland’s favorite beach bars and restaurants are dumping out buckets of water this month.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Lily celebrated a couple of days later by hopping on Instagram and dumping out plenty of photos from the event.
    — David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of dumping

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“Marooning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marooning. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026.

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