adrift

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It meant her dreams of competing in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics as a bobsledder were then set adrift, but she said it was a matter she was "prepared for".

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Since replacing Russell Martin, Rohl has hauled Rangers into third place in the league, behind Celtic on goal difference and six points adrift of leaders Hearts.

From BBC

"Strasbourg are perhaps slightly adrift in the sense they are seen as a holding area of talent that perhaps Chelsea want to bring to the club at a later point," said Maguire.

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Wrexham sit just one point adrift of the Championship's top six, having won four successive matches in the second tier for the first time in their history.

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The same thick darkness of the door swallowed her for a moment before pinpricks of light like stars appeared, as if she were adrift in space.

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