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anchorless

  • a word derived from anchor.
    anchor
    noun
    any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.

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Freddie seems unmoored, anchorless, neither French nor Korean.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2023

That allows her to return to her own life, which, free of Houston’s gravitational pull, is anchorless.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2019

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

Today, somewhat anchorless, the rebels continue to go through motions of an armed insurgency but they know a new future is beckoning.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2016

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