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"If you don't have that, it leaves you kind of anchorless at sea," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023
Freddie seems unmoored, anchorless, neither French nor Korean.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2023
The anchorless PrPSc is highly infectious without causing toxicity112, and in other mammalian prion systems, the infectivity titre and toxicity seem to be uncoupled113.
From Nature ● Nov. 8, 2016
Dementia hijacks him early, and such a sustained state can leave an audience anchorless.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2014
A hand somewhere struck the gramophone arm and sent the silver needle on its way through the whirling, black grooves, like something bobbing, anchorless, in the middle of the sea.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
