adrift

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The club had been a point off the play-off places after a 3-2 win at Hull City on 7 February, but are now 12 points adrift of the top six.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

The characters she plays in that show and in this film are financially cosseted but psychologically adrift, bumping along from one middle-aged frustration, or humiliation, to the next.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Divorce, marriage, kids, no kids; so many of the men in McCarthy’s orbit feel alienated, adrift, untethered to any community.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Etibar Eyyub has turned the Iran war to his favor, selling shiploads of oil that had been adrift at sea.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The inmates took in their grim destination: Leavenworth was a 366,000-square-foot fortress, which, as a prisoner once described, rose out of the surrounding cornfields like a “giant mausoleum adrift in a great sea of nothingness.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann