marooning

present participle of maroon

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marooning
Verb
  • Ross and the unit's six other horses are responsible for helping the police handle crowd control, whether its amid the thousands stumbling through Lower Broadway or the rush of 65,000 fans entering or leaving Nissan Stadium for a Titans game.
    Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Senate also passed, by wide margins, legislation already passed by the House that will remove the 6% sales tax from fuel sales and raise the fuel tax by 20 cents per gallon, leaving the price motorists pay at the pump about the same.
    Paul Egan, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • O’Hoppe and Christian Moore struck out in the first, stranding two runners.
    Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Boston ultimately only got three at bats with runners in scoring position, going 1 for 3 while stranding six men, and the Diamondbacks slowly pulled away with an RBI single by McCarthy in the fourth and a sacrifice fly by Blaze Alexander in the seventh.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Still, large pools of undeployed capital remain available, and major institutional players show little sign of abandoning real estate as a core asset class.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Democrats returned to Washington to demonstrate unity and accuse GOP leaders of abandoning negotiations.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • He was sentenced to life plus 15 years in a Missouri prison for killing the women and dumping their bodies.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Finally, Trump tries to infect Satan with toxoplasmosis by dumping pounds of kitty litter on him.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Marooning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marooning. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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