adrift
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More than 80 people, including a baby, are feared to have died in a boat which was adrift in the Atlantic Ocean for 27 days.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
He was a sad figure adrift, a relic virtually alone until he was hunted down by the CIA and French intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Some of the medical and scientific skepticism is a result of people feeling adrift in a rapidly changing world and drowning in competing information.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
That feeling of being adrift without knowing where to turn is what the filmmakers built the movie around.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
“The Raft of the Medusa” portrays victims of a shipwreck, adrift on the sea without food or water, at the moment they signal to a distant ship.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
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