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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adjective

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Recent Examples of castaway
Adjective
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 The first teaser trailer for Yellowjackets season three is finally here, and the series is shaping up to be as juicy as a thigh from a castaway soccer player. Abby Monteil, Them, 9 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
  • His famous pectoral cross, a simple image of the Good Shepherd carrying a lost sheep on his shoulders, wasn't just a personal emblem.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Apr. 2025
  • These can lead to a slower speed of weight loss, a weight loss plateau, or the regaining the lost weight.13 6.
    Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In the trailer, Wednesday returns for a second year at Nevermore Academy, a private school for outcasts.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2025
  • For Firestone’s outcasts, fashion—and physical appearance in general—takes on world-shattering importance.
    Audrey Wollen, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This material is not to be reproduced or redistributed absent the written consent of Fairlead Strategies.
    Katie Stockton, CNBC, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Although not absent from blame at times, McTominay often shone in a squad that has performed below par in recent years.
    Henry Flynn, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • That’s your idea of escaping a leper’s life?
    Lee Chang-dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • When Michele Romano went missing last August, her family and their close friend, podcaster Lauren Lee Malloy, labored over flyers bearing her image: a woman with a gentle smile and a spill of braids, wrapped in a cozy, pale rainbow cardigan.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Bookbindings For the record, Tom paid for Maddie’s missing ear to be reconstructed.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Apr. 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
  • The rebels captured Goma for the first time in 2012 but hastily withdrew, as military defeats and international sanctions slapped on their Rwandan backers forced them into exile.
    Sophie Neiman, Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Senior members of the World Uyghur Congress living in exile were among the targets.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025

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