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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
strand . - adjective of a person
abandoned ormarooned . - adjective nautical, of a vessel Run
aground on ashore orreef . - adjective a piece of
wire made by combining or bundling thinner wires - adjective expenses or costs which have become unrecoverable or difficult to recover.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective cut off or left behind
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Examples
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In about two dozen states -- including Maryland -- it forced ratepayers to eat some $100 billion in "stranded" reactor costs in preparation for "free competition."
Harvey Wasserman: Nuke "Renaissance" Leaps off Calvert Cliffs Harvey Wasserman 2010
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Blame swirls in stranded Continental Express flight - USATODAY. com
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Blame swirls in stranded Continental Express flight
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Meanwhile, hundreds of supply trucks remain stranded at the closed Torkhum border crossing in the Khyber tribal region, leaving them vulnerable to attacks from Taliban insurgents.
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Two years since fighting ended at Nahr el Bared, thousands of Palestinian refugees remain stranded without homes and, along with a number of Lebanese, are simply fed up.
Global Voices in English » Lebanon: Anger Rebuilding of Palestinian Camp Suspended 2009
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Meanwhile, hundreds of supply trucks remain stranded at the closed Torkhum border crossing in the Khyber tribal region, leaving them vulnerable to attacks from Taliban insurgents.
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Authorities say hundreds of thousands remain stranded after their homes and villages were inundated, clinging to the roofs of houses or whatever dry speck of land they can find.
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In addition, its high altitude means that it has areas with animals and vegitation stranded from the last ice age.
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It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted.
Archive 2005-09-01 2005
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I turned the green and orange yarns into an experiment in stranded color knitting, making up patterns as I went along.
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