stranded
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It ended abruptly when the cable suddenly broke while slowly being released from the ship that was laying it, leaving 380 miles of metal and rubber stranded on the sea floor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
The stranded ships will need even more water as summer is coming.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
There are 57 loaded Very Large Crude Carriers, the vessels most closely watched in the oil trade, still stranded around the Strait of Hormuz, said Matt Smith, an analyst with Kpler, an energy intelligence company.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
Thousands of Indians are among the estimated 20,000 seafarers stranded by the Strait of Hormuz blockade.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
He doesn’t know any local people in Manila, besides the priests at the university and two other men from the Grant who’d been stranded with him.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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