as in to leave
to cause to remain behind
sailors marooned on a desert island
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In this excerpt on the birth of Survivor, Nussbaum goes back to the moments before the 16 original castaways were marooned off the sides of a ship in the South China Sea, left to row toward a beach where their game — and the production of the show — had already begun.
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Emily Nussbaum, Vulture, 5 July 2024
Faced with the possibility of being marooned on the lunar surface for eternity — and just hours away from scheduled liftoff — the two men let NASA engineers try and solve the problem and took a five-hour nap.
—Johnny Dodd, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
Casey Stengel or Walt Alston in their primes couldn’t have kept these Rox, runts in a division of Giants both literal (San Francisco) and figurative (Los Angeles, San Diego), from being marooned in the NL West basement.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2024
Lupita Nyong’o leads the movie’s voice cast, playing a robot named Roz, who gets marooned on an uninhabited island and soon develops a bond with an orphaned gosling.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 29 Sep. 2024
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Emily Nussbaum, Vulture, 5 July 2024
Faced with the possibility of being marooned on the lunar surface for eternity — and just hours away from scheduled liftoff — the two men let NASA engineers try and solve the problem and took a five-hour nap.
—Johnny Dodd, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
Casey Stengel or Walt Alston in their primes couldn’t have kept these Rox, runts in a division of Giants both literal (San Francisco) and figurative (Los Angeles, San Diego), from being marooned in the NL West basement.
—Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2024
Lupita Nyong’o leads the movie’s voice cast, playing a robot named Roz, who gets marooned on an uninhabited island and soon develops a bond with an orphaned gosling.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 29 Sep. 2024
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As a result, Hezbollah pulled its forces out of Syria to focus on its war with Israel, leaving Assad exposed, experts said.Mostafa Salem, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
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However, prices also spiked in non-U.S. steel markets over that period amid a global rise in demand, leaving only a modest impact from the tariffs, the study found.Max Zahn, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Many were stranded by the storm and later, without electricity, relied on their AM radios to hear emergency broadcasts and reports about where to get food, water, and shelter.Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Dec. 2024
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Quote: By that point, the fire inside the Connaught was so intense that passengers still stranded on deck could feel the heat through their shoes.Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 3 Dec. 2024
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Tags college deserts college deserts Copyright 2024 Nexstar Media Inc.Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 4 Dec. 2024
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The number of Ukrainian soldiers deserting their positions has soared in 2024, according to a new report, as Kyiv contends with persistent Russian advances and uncertainty over what the new year will hold for its war effort.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
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“Maroon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maroon. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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