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
McCartney sounded intrigued by my whereabouts, or perhaps merely amused that I was marooned there waiting out a predictably bad run of snowy weather.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
Feels like she has been marooned on an island far from all the fun parts of the show.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
But its magic can be isolating, too, by conjuring relationships that don’t exist, and marooning us within a universe where anything is real.
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2025
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Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
McCartney sounded intrigued by my whereabouts, or perhaps merely amused that I was marooned there waiting out a predictably bad run of snowy weather.
—Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2025
Feels like she has been marooned on an island far from all the fun parts of the show.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2025
But its magic can be isolating, too, by conjuring relationships that don’t exist, and marooning us within a universe where anything is real.
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maroon
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Merge’s co-founder and co-president Laura Ballance, also bass player in Superchunk, is leaving the music business.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
10 June 2025
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The report said nearly a third of Britain’s 2.4M creative employees experience workplace conflict, resulting in people leaving jobs early or being out of work.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
10 June 2025
Verb
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The game ended with the tying run stranded on second base.—
Clark Fahrenthold,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 June 2025
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That may take awhile, given that on its first flight last June, technical problems ended up stranding its two astronauts on the ISS for months.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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As their consistency deserted them at the crucial moment, Burnley’s has continued.—
Gregg Evans,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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Burrowing owls are also desert dwellers and have adapted by digging burrows underground for nesting and shelter.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
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“Maroon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maroon. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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