marooned
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Rosmarin and the other passengers were marooned on board with "seriously ill" travellers as the cruise ship searched for a port that would accept them.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Nguyen is struggling to piece together the logic that led to his client being marooned in a country where he had no ties.
From Barron's • Apr. 7, 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
“Robinson Crusoe” concerned a longer ordeal: Defoe had drawn on the true account of a Scottish sailor who was marooned on an island near Chile, borrowing themes from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
But as my luck in life seemed only to snowball from there, I thought more about the twenty or so kids who’d been marooned in that classroom, stuck with an uncaring and unmotivated teacher.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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