as in to leave
to cause to remain behind
sailors marooned on a desert island
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Recent Examples of maroon
And other than strategic additions that have been added over the years to complicate gameplay, the structure has stayed largely the same for 49 seasons—16-20 strangers, assembled into warring tribes, are marooned on an island, competing for a million-dollar prize.
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Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
Another defeat in a miserable season left Wolverhampton Wanderers still marooned on two points at the foot of the Premier League table.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
Local television showed an air force helicopter rescuing three people stranded on the roof of a house marooned by floods, while navy and police used boats to transport residents.
—Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2025
At the old port in Pozzuoli, boats now stand nestled in long grass, marooned on new land that has risen out of the sea.
—Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 25 Nov. 2025
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Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
Another defeat in a miserable season left Wolverhampton Wanderers still marooned on two points at the foot of the Premier League table.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2025
Local television showed an air force helicopter rescuing three people stranded on the roof of a house marooned by floods, while navy and police used boats to transport residents.
—Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2025
At the old port in Pozzuoli, boats now stand nestled in long grass, marooned on new land that has risen out of the sea.
—Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 25 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maroon
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In France, 60% of respondents said their government’s policies will leave future generations worse off, as did 53% in the United Kingdom and 51% in Germany.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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Payne fled after the shooting, leaving his children behind.—
Quinlan Bentley,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
10 Feb. 2026
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One described feeling as if she were stranded in the middle of the ocean, pregnant and without a life raft.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Directed by Sam Raimi, the darkly comic horror-thriller Send Help stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien as co-workers stranded on a desert island.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Feb. 2026
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One is that OpenAI’s board has apparently abandoned its mission of safety.—
Alnoor Ebrahim,
The Conversation,
13 Feb. 2026
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The tech mogul, who helped found OpenAI, sued Altman and the company in 2024, accusing them of abandoning the firm’s founding values and manipulating him into investing in the ChatGPT maker.—
Julia Shapero,
The Hill,
13 Feb. 2026
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Fedorov, the new defense minister, acknowledges the scale of the problem, telling the Ukrainian parliament some 2 million people are ignoring their call-up papers, while 200,000 others have deserted.—
Andrew Carey,
CNN Money,
3 Feb. 2026
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About a third of Californians live in what’s called the wildland-urban-interface, where human settlements overlap with wildlife habitat like forests, mountain foothills or desert open space, Crowfoot said.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Maroon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maroon. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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