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"adrift in a" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to describe a feeling of being lost or directionless in a certain situation or environment. It can also be used literally to describe something or someone floating aimlessly on water. Example 1: "After losing her job, she felt adrift in a sea of uncertainty." Example 2: "The boat was adrift in a calm ocean, with no land in sight." Example 3: "He felt adrift in a foreign country, unable to understand the language or customs."
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Hussain Behbudi, 33, is adrift in a sea of worries.
Countless other families have been left adrift in a limbo of uncertainty.
"How will they react to being cast adrift in a world of impersonal educational machinery?
Unmoored and disoriented, I was adrift in a more expansive reality.
The first held apricot-colored chanterelles and earthy porcini adrift in a light, satiny cream sauce.
Truong gives us instead a completely believable Asian gay man adrift in a strange European world.
They are a future global monoclass of citizenry adrift in a classless sea.
"They're both adrift, in a way," she says of Madeline and Paul.
And the chocolate souffle, adrift in a flood of chocolate soup, is serenely voluptuous.
Anthony has therefore spent most of his childhood adrift in a sea of foster care situations.
At Help!, Mr. Elder created Goodman Beaver, a Candide figure adrift in a corrupt world.
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