as in to leave
to cause to remain behind
sailors marooned on a desert island
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Recent Examples of maroon
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.
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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
Guests take a short boat ride at sunset to a small wooden dock marooned in the middle of a lagoon in the Indian Ocean.
—Caitlin Palumbo, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
But this was thousands of miles away, and this Talib, marooned in a frontier outpost, was suspicious.
—Azam Ahmed, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
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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
Guests take a short boat ride at sunset to a small wooden dock marooned in the middle of a lagoon in the Indian Ocean.
—Caitlin Palumbo, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
But this was thousands of miles away, and this Talib, marooned in a frontier outpost, was suspicious.
—Azam Ahmed, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for maroon
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Whereas having a protagonist instantly leads the audience to expect goals, conflict, and character arc, Lund wanted a film about the communal experience of leaving the day-to-day of work, family, and routine behind for a few hours.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
7 Mar. 2025
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Career ladders: Creating advancement opportunities within teaching, rather than forcing educators to leave the classroom for administrative roles to advance, addresses a key retention issue at a moderate cost.—
Scott White,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Study abroad funding is paused, leaving some students stranded.—
Campbell Robertson,
New York Times,
6 Mar. 2025
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Passengers on two cruise ships have been stranded at sea and other weekend cruise passengers have had their trips cancelled due to a tropical cyclone off of Australia's southeastern coast.—
Sophie Clark,
Newsweek,
6 Mar. 2025
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More than 50,000 Russian troops have deserted and gone absent without leave since Russia widened its war on Ukraine three years ago, according to a new report from Ukrainian analysis group Frontelligence Insight.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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The Miami Herald spoke to more than a dozen former clients who say they were similarly deserted by Farrow after paying him thousands of dollars to take on their cases.—
Ben Wieder,
Miami Herald,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Maroon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maroon. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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