aground
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Then she wrote a pilot for a different series with Olivia Colman, but it too ran aground.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Even if the yield provision moves forward, there are significant risks where the Clarity Act runs aground on unrelated issues.
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
She co-founded a school for orphans, preserved and sold Hamilton’s papers, and commissioned a biographical project that kept running aground.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
The vessel ran aground on rocks near the uninhabited island of Jogdo.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
They let him use a twenty-four-foot outboard with a T-top and twin 150s—not for fishing but for towing in tourists who ran out of gas or rammed their boats aground.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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