stuck

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It’s a joke with its own Wikipedia page, one economists tell on economists, about being stuck on a deserted island with a can of food and no way open it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

‘Mental breakdown’: Oil tanker workers stuck in Gulf for six weeks are reaching their limit.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

It was far higher than he had anticipated in part because the parka was, unbeknownst to him, made in Myanmar, then facing a tariff rate of 40%, which stuck him with $248.04 in charges.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

“We learned that we’re just going to be stuck with them,” Wooden said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

And apparently Po, Brickbane’s mentor, had been so eager to enter the Afterlife, he’d stuck around to train Brickbane for only two hours.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman