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maroon

verb as in abandon

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But once she recovered, the barely 5-foot-tall firebrand was plenty mobile in her Loyola maroon Nikes.

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The thief drove off with the maroon two-seater and hadn’t been caught as of Tuesday morning.

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As a young lad growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area town of Pittsburg, my school uniform consisted of corduroys the color of Ash Wednesday, a white dress shirt and a maroon V-neck sweater.

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The woman’s maroon Kia Sorrento had been stolen, and the department sent the license plate number to surrounding jurisdictions in the hope of finding the suspect and the vehicle, police said.

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The drama: Our captain’s previous ship was marooned under suspicious circumstances.

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