cast adrift
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When daily life gets turned upside down and shattered into pieces, people are bound to feel cast adrift.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
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
These two Pac-12 orphans have built an affinity based on their shared misery and mutual uncertainty, having been cast adrift by the rest of the conference.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 23, 2023
The structure he found had been cast adrift following the inferno of brutal war, and left largely abandoned during four decades of cold division.
From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2023
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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