as in to leave
to cause to remain behind
sailors marooned on a desert island
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Recent Examples of maroon
The Hemingway in the piece is a comic figure—self-dramatizing, repetitive, marooned within his own monologues, and sometimes ridiculously affected.
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
But hundreds of thousands of people are still marooned in tents and other makeshift shelters worn out by months of use as the fighting raged last year.
—Reuters, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2025
Together, the team and family uncover a secret hidden from the world for decades on the island where they have been marooned.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2025
John Barrymore, Ernst Lubitsch, and Barbara Stanwyck all had damage to their homes, and Frank Capra, the Academy’s president, was marooned in Malibu.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
But hundreds of thousands of people are still marooned in tents and other makeshift shelters worn out by months of use as the fighting raged last year.
—Reuters, NBC News, 7 Feb. 2025
Together, the team and family uncover a secret hidden from the world for decades on the island where they have been marooned.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2025
John Barrymore, Ernst Lubitsch, and Barbara Stanwyck all had damage to their homes, and Frank Capra, the Academy’s president, was marooned in Malibu.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
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With few options left, Adam begins considering and concocting ways to enact vengeance, but Basem, having been down that rageful path, advises him otherwise.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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The department did not say how much money is left of the total $189 billion approved.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Targeting Immigrant Students California Could Ban ICE From Public Schools Third Grade Student Arrested by ICE Sparks Mass Protest Trump ended CBP One for new entrants on January 20, the first day of his second term, stranding thousands in Mexico who had appointments into early February.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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Then, as the hungry whales migrated north in 2019, large numbers began stranding on the beaches of California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.—
Susanne Rust,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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It was built during World War II to watch for enemy ships before being deserted in 1949, according to Atlas Obscura.—
Helena Wegner,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The bees are dying as the workers desert the queen.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Maroon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maroon. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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