aground
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The boat, carrying 82 people, ran aground on a beach in northern France on Sunday morning.
From BBC • May 3, 2026
What’s Next: As late as last month lawmakers seemed poised to move forward with the bill, however the Senate’s version of it ran aground.
From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026
It is thought that the wreck is most likely the Fame from Hoorn, an armed Dutch merchant ship that ran aground and sank in 1631.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026
One of them, the Dutch-flagged Thamesborg, ran aground in the Franklin Strait, where it got stuck for over a month.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
The next story is about a small freighter that runs aground off Far Rockaway in the middle of the night.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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