adrift
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But her efforts are no match for a big storm that sets the house adrift in the wild sea.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Eight points adrift, but with momentum and more than 20 minutes on the clock, a France comeback loomed ominously.
From BBC • May 17, 2026
Their actions, casting adrift the ship's captain William Bligh, have been immortalised in books and film.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Verstappen's team-mate Isack Hadjar, who had had a promising start to his Red Bull career, was left trailing, 0.825secs adrift of the Dutchman in ninth.
From BBC • May 2, 2026
Darwin's “gemmule” theory—that hereditary instructions were thrown adrift by all cells and then floated in the blood, like a million messages in bottles—suggested that blood transfusions might transmit gemmules and thereby alter heredity.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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