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The phrase "a population adrift" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a group of people who are lacking direction or purpose, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "In times of economic uncertainty, many feel like a population adrift, searching for stability and guidance."
Alternatives: "a lost population" or "a directionless community".
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Schemes like that, known in Mandarin as "rats' societies," have proliferated in China's era of surging growth, fuelled by get-rich-quick dreams and a population adrift between ideologies.
They are a population adrift.
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"We may seem behind bars to them," he says of the population adrift in the outside world.
Silver job fairs, established to find jobs for people 60 and older, have mushroomed across South Korea in the past year as part of a government effort to assist a rapidly growing population of older Koreans adrift in a changing society.
"A country adrift.
He was feeling a little adrift.
"And there was Ray, a man adrift, a project.
Without a competitive goal, he feels a little adrift.
Penn, here, is a wonder adrift.
Her life was a bit adrift.
It is a company adrift, a well-capitalized mess.
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