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Assange said the United States had "marooned" Snowden in Russia by revoking his passport.

From Reuters • Jun. 30, 2013

The loss of the boat had marooned them on the island.

From The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone by Bonner, Richard

The two priests whom Magellan had marooned had honestly thought Magellan mad.

From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah

That made three such marks, three days since Thorvald had marooned him.

From Storm Over Warlock by Norton, Andre

While we lay there on the careen a parcel of the crew who had been off hunting for game fetched back one of the self-same fellows we had marooned two months and more before.

From The Rose of Paradise Being a detailed account of certain adventures that happened to captain John Mackra, in connection with the famous pirate, Edward England, in the year 1720, off the Island of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel; writ by himself, and now for the first time published by Pyle, Howard