cast adrift
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Southampton are cast adrift at the bottom and it seems two out of the four teams above them will join them in the Championship next season.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2025
Since being cast adrift, the Beavers and Cougars have played their cards exactly right.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
Few filmmakers can evoke, as fully as Claire Denis does, the intoxication and menace of feeling cast adrift in a world where you don’t belong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
Many people, perhaps understandably, would rather be in a well-defined adversarial relationship with an employer than to feel utterly cast adrift by society.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2022
But now I was leaving them, to venture alone into the unknown, to cast adrift my ship in search of freedom and liberty in a new land.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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