adrift
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The nautical metaphor is inescapable: The visitor is completely adrift here.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
This country is tiled with adrift twentysomething males, beset with incoherent politics, whose opinion about any issue is generated in the 10 seconds after they’ve been asked the question.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
Even the most privileged among us occasionally find ourselves adrift and ill-equipped to deal with our own capsized lives.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
When Simeone first arrived, Atletico had just been eliminated from the Copa del Rey by third-tier Albacete and were 10th in La Liga, 21 points adrift of the leaders.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
Now I was beginning to wonder if I could go back to the land with these eleven days adrift in my memory.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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