stranded

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The State Department is negotiating with countries in Africa and Asia to relocate over 1,100 Afghans stranded in Qatar after U.S. travel restrictions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

The search for an American airman stranded behind enemy lines jolted the U.S., making what had been an abstract air war feel visceral beyond the grainy footage of explosions released by the White House.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Cut off from historic higher elevation cold-water spawning grounds by the Shasta and Keswick dams, the fish have been stranded for decades in the Sacramento River — where warm water routinely cooks their eggs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

So she did an uncomfortable sort of jig before walking off the set and leaving the band stranded.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

I could tell the river was receding from its rainy-season flood by its peculiar rank smell and all the driftwood stranded along its banks.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver