aground
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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
Four crew members were rescued by lifeboat and HM Coastguard said the vessel remained aground and the responsibility of its owner.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
When the oil tanker Sea Empress ran aground 30 years ago, some of south Wales' best-known beaches turned black.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 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
Almost every night he’d tell us a new horror story about some macho moron driving a go-fast boat aground and gouging a hundred-yard scar across the turtle grass.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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