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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

The last man to break the Old Firm duopoly has been seen in a maroon tie at Tynecastle and is in regular contact with the Hearts boss.

From BBC ● May 15, 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

I thought that she would go up and take the man in the maroon bathrobe, as he was first, so I was surprised when she came toward me.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

After an expedition to a hostile planet, he unintentionally maroons his fellow explorers, so they have no choice but to set up a colony there.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 14, 2022

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

Then stripes in yellows and greens and whites and maroons began to emerge as sunlight bathed the landscape.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 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

She and William saw them at dusk, when “the sky was so very lovely, too, maroons, lavenders, blues.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

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

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

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

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2023

This time a van's clutch has stopped working, marooning them in the central reservation of the busy motorway.

From BBC ● May 1, 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

This little trick of marooning us on a fatal orbit in space.

From Before Egypt by E. K. Jarvis