castaway 1 of 2

as in reject
one who is cast out or rejected by society one theory is that Easter Island was first settled by castaways from Polynesia

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castaway

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adjective

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Recent Examples of castaway
Adjective
And his castaway shipmate has marvelously oversized whiskers, formidable fangs and a ravenous appetite. Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 5 June 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 Creative decor with upcycled and reclaimed materials, retractable roofs for stargazing from bed From $4,400/night Book now 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 The Maldives Best for: Romance, castaway vibes, and overwater excess Dotted across an astoundingly blue Indian Ocean is Asia’s smallest country, an archipelago of 1,192 coralline islets, only 200 of which are inhabited. Paul Rubio, AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024 Watching the castaway characters navigate the unknown, despite its violence and ridiculousness, has been a soothing reprieve from the casual chaos of my own everyday life. Vox Staff, Vox, 23 Dec. 2024 Your privileged castaway journey begins in Long Beach, 30 to 60 minutes from Anaheim by car depending on the time of day. Paula Conway, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024 Inspired by the true story of Marguerite de La Rocque, Allegra Goodman’s latest novel is a feminist castaway tale about love, faith, and self-actualization. Shannon Carlin, TIME, 17 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for castaway
Noun
  • The modern reject rejects the academic consensus on everything from the science of vaccines to the benefits of free trade.
    Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Still, the rejects are legion: Amy Sedaris, Tiffany Haddish, Jim Carrey, Nick Kroll, Aubrey Plaza, John Goodman, Geena Davis, Jennifer Aniston, Andrea Martin, Zach Galifianakis, Paul Reubens.
    Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • What’s a bit lost is the communal audience experience.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 13 June 2025
  • At other times throughout the game, almost always after a lost rebound or a turnover, Carlisle would put both of his hands in front of his body and make a circle shape with his hands.
    Tony East, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • The two were considered outcasts, and Edward VII only met with his brother King George a few times after his abdication, briefly and without his wife.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 7 June 2025
  • Interviewed by The Times in 2022 about her musical, Ms. Sobule emphasized that her goal was to reach a broad audience of people who felt like outcasts.
    Hank Sanders, New York Times, 2 May 2025
Adjective
  • Presence Sometimes what’s absent from a film defines it as much as what’s present.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 June 2025
  • China's defense minister was absent from this year's event and sent a lower-level delegation instead.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • Where we're not shunned as criminals or treated like lepers.
    Ryan Hampton, Time, 28 May 2025
  • But one thing’s for sure—there were some among them who chose to become lepers.
    Lee Chang-dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Crews were bringing in search dogs Thursday afternoon to help find missing people, Arrington said.
    LEKAN OYEKANMI, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2025
  • Athletes and coaches often get unfairly scrutinized for missing games due to being there for their family.
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • The Biden administration repeatedly used such votes to depict Russia as a pariah state.
    Dave Lawler, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The pariahs deemed monstrous, Ne Zha included, might have within them a more commendable moral compass.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • While his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn became classics, Twain made poor financial decisions that bankrupted him and forced him to flee the country and spend nearly a decade in exile.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 6 June 2025
  • Tens of thousands went into exile, a large portion of them to Nova Scotia, to other parts of Canada or across the Atlantic Ocean to England.
    Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 June 2025

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