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But Jane, who enters her office to an oil painting of her father, smiling kindly in a maroon armchair, is confident that Sol would have wanted his holdings intact for generations to come.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

You don't have to be maroon or green to be stirred by this.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

She took off her white coat to reveal a second outfit, this time a deep maroon dress with a lace-up back.

From BBC ● May 4, 2026

In his maroon robes, simple sandals and wide-rimmed spectacles, the Dalai Lama is an unlikely global celebrity.

From Barron's ● Feb. 2, 2026

With one maroon fingernail she tapped the top of the Diet Coke she’d bought just after school, then popped the tab.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

That maroons 100 chatty senators - including four Democrats in the heat of a nomination fight - for the serious constitutional business of the impeachment trial, for hours at a time.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 21, 2020

Maybe it’s the generic newness of the place, which was built a little over five years ago — all browns and maroons and sea foam green.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2018

Set in Wyoming shortly after the Civil War, the film maroons the titular group of unsavory types at a stagecoach stopover during a blizzard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2015

But there's nothing reverential or retro about its approach: it maroons these sounds amid a mass of disconnected, echoing samples – snatches of piano, distorted voices, buzzing electronics – and unexpected beats.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2013

The descendants of maroons who evaded the British still live in Jamaica to this day.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson

In short: Wilson snuck a 2,700-year-old poem through the gates of mainstream taste — and after that victory, her arrogance left her marooned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

His universally acclaimed “Summer of Soul” dropped in June 2021, offering deep refreshment to thirsty concertgoers marooned in a barren season for live music.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

Clotted ribbons of trash were drifting past, from marooned vessels forced to toss rotting garbage overboard.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026

Having been marooned at the back, Sauber became more respectable performers, and their veteran German driver Nico Hulkenberg even finally scored a podium after 16 years of trying in last year's British Grand Prix.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

I told them I’d been marooned on an island.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

Fifteenth-century sailors shared stories of ships that had become ensnared in the algae, marooning their crews at sea.

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2023

The lack of open nursing home beds is marooning some patients in hospitals for weeks while social workers seek placements.

From Salon ● Jan. 27, 2023

Debris flows and swollen creeks blocked roads and highways, marooning hundreds of people for hours and, in some cases, days.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2023

In neighbouring Switzerland the heat dried out the shore of Brenet Lake, marooning boats.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2022

There has been no such marooning since the days of the pirates.

From Last Words by Stephen Crane