adrift
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With no career prospects and their ballasts gone, they were adrift.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 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
She spent two days and a night adrift in the Andaman Sea off Bangladesh after the overcrowded vessel carrying about 280 people sank following four days of travel.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli took a scintillating pole position at the Belgian Grand Prix, leaving team-mate and title rival George Russell trailing in fourth, more than 0.5 seconds adrift.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Carl would have to say something one way or the other simply because the two of them were at sea together, moored boat to boat but to nothing else, adrift and battling the same problem.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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