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marooned

[muh-roond] / məˈrund /






ADJECTIVE
shipwrecked
Synonyms


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Marooned on the backbenches, Rayner could only watch on as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was buffeted by a leadership crisis - and governed without her.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

Marooned in an unfamiliar city, with no social ties, Folan taught yoga at a local YMCA.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Marooned on their own de facto uninhabited island.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Marooned inside our house, all the windows and doors tightly sealed, I stared into the grid of black boxes on Zoom that now represented the students in my high-school visual arts classes.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2021

Marooned here on the Moon with our treasure!

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 by Bates, Harry




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