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Recent Examples of castaway
Daysia Tolentino, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
Both she and her ally, Velovic, were named as the final two castaways among the returning 24 stars.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
For the immunity challenge, castaways need to balance a ball at the end of a plank, and whoever lasts the longest wins immunity.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
Friendship Bay Beach on the eastern shore is another popular anchorage with a beautiful beachfront, while remote Crescent Beach on the island's northeast coast offers a castaway feel.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025
Previous castaways that will play (again) in the 50th season have been announced via CBS's Instagram.
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 20 Nov. 2025
The Celtics prevailed Sunday, moving to 5-6 on the season, because their bench of castaways and unproven youngsters delivered.
—Jay King, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
David Amsden, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
Colts head coach Shane Steichen has found something in castaway quarterback Daniel Jones.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 28 Sep. 2025
The decor seems to have been made with materials which washed up on a beach giving it a genuine castaway appearance.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Emotion was a big part of Season 48, with Probst being moved to tears on camera for the first time in 25 years when castaway Joe Hunter put the game aside to make sure his ally, Eva Erickson, a player with autism, was OK.
—Emily Longeretta, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025
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Soneva brought its castaway fantasy to new heights with the May 2024 opening of a third Maldivian hideaway that’s its grandest—and smallest—resort to date.
—Jennifer Flowers, AFAR Media, 3 Apr. 2025
The package also includes daily breakfast and dinner and a bottle of champagne, and add-ons include a private dinner aboard a yacht, a castaway picnic lunch on a private island, and filling your private pool with red roses.
—Devorah Lev-Tov, Robb Report, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
The show, which ran for three seasons from 1964 to 1967, centered around seven castaways who have to survive after getting shipwrecked on an uncharted island.
—Adjective
Chartering a speedboat, we were whisked into the bay, a spellbinding expanse of calm, amniotic water dotted with more than 50 tiny islands and pristine beaches that called to mind castaway fantasies.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for castaway
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In it, Jackson Lamb (Oldman), River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) and the rest of the MI5 rejects are on the case — and a bit on the defense.—
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As the saying goes, nobody wants to sit at the reject table.—
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The Broncos’ defense put forth a salty 2022 season under Evero before finally caving late in a lost season.—
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Verbeek’s Jessica, the girl in search of her lost mother, looks the youngest, her face still full and round with baby fat.—
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When snowboarding was first created, mountains banned snowboards from ski lifts because they were stigmatized by association with outcasts and misfits.—
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Oak Lawn’s history of being a haven for the LGBTQ community dates back to the mid-1900s when LGBTQ people were outcasts — and considered criminals.—
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And when Mamdani was publicly sworn in, absent was House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, a fellow New Yorker, who had only reluctantly endorsed the former Queens assemblyman.—
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Though some years past have been ripe with political commentary on stage, the topic was notably absent this year, with speech givers opting to shout-out their families and people inside the Globes ballroom as opposed to the weighty issues outside of it.—
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The overarching idea, which brands like Adidas have played with to varying degrees of success, is that making everything out of a single material eliminates the need to strip castoff garments of fiddly buttons and zippers, a time-consuming and often expensive process.—
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Quentin was assigned his own Nieuport plane that winter, a castoff from the French flying units.—
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Maybe any trust to pull off the simplest offseason task will prove misplaced again.—
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While digging around for her misplaced passport, Emily finds an engagement ring.—
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Daryl hit the road this week on The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, befriending a community of lepers before taking a ride on the rails, zombie apocalypse-style.—
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Meanwhile, in a remote leper village, a handsome stranger brings hope with miraculous cures until doubts grow about whether his help may come at a terrible cost.—
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Perilous Voyages More than 5,100 Rohingya have taken boats to leave Myanmar and Bangladesh between January and early November this year, with nearly 600 people reported dead or missing, according to data from the UN Refugee Agency.—
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As of Friday, nine people remain missing, who are believed to have been in the area at the time of the crash, ABC News and WAVE reported.—
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“Castaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/castaway. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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