stranded
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Tens of thousands of people were stranded in airports around the country, many of them "without any knowledge of where they're going to sleep tonight", Duffy said.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
For stranded passengers like McDonald, being proactive is the name of the game.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026
Confusion reigned at airports across the United States Friday, as a rare grounding of all US flights stranded hundreds of thousands of frustrated travelers with no end to the delays in sight.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
One of the people stranded was Nick Renteria, a Los Angeles resident stranded at the airport in Dallas–Fort Worth on his way to Arkansas.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026
Suddenly, it occurred to Jinny that in all the commotion, she hadn’t helped Ess down the boulders, that she had run and stranded the girl behind after all that.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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