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I have spent the last three hours helping clients get unstranded because everyone in Boston, New York, and Newark has had their flight canceled out from under them by United.

From Slate • Aug. 11, 2023

It is a slender, tapering, unstranded piece of rope prepared with much solicitude; peculiarly flexible; and wreathes and serpentines round the cable and messenger like an elegantly-modeled garter-snake round the twisted stalks of a vine.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman

Tossed carelessly in the corner appeared some blankets topped by a few straggling black horse tails, like an unstranded riata.

From On the Frontier by Harte, Bret

Ropes were unstranded, and the yarns picked apart; and, cut up into small bits, were used as a substitute for the weed.

From Redburn. His First Voyage by Melville, Herman

They each had bits of unstranded old junk in their hands, and, with a sort of stoical self-content, were picking the junk into oakum, a small heap of which lay by their sides.

From The Piazza Tales by Melville, Herman