stranded
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"You don't want to go out there and get caught out... you don't want to find yourself stranded, your family stuck abroad not getting home."
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Plan to use air cushions to save Timmy the stranded whale.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026
Emerging economies are likely to be “harder hit by shortages of fuel, fertilisers and other goods stranded in the Persian Gulf because they cannot out-bid advanced economies,” CBA says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
However, liquefied natural gas tankers “remain at a standstill, with vessels stranded on both sides of the strait and operators still awaiting clearer security guarantees before re-entering the route,” Kpler added External link.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
In 1915, a British crew of twenty-eight men was stranded there, with no ship and no way to contact the outside world.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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