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Recent Examples of castaway
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
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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
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
Noun
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
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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
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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
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Cradled in the English Channel, Guernsey rises like the lost city of Atlantis—a storybook island and self-governing British Crown dependency, with a rich tapestry of ancient history and wild beauty—far beyond the old tourist poster of sunny cream teas.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2025
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Yet despite the lost sleep, orangutans still often choose to build their nightly nests in close proximity to each other.—
Lauren Leffer,
Popular Science,
25 June 2025
Noun
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The movie, which world premiered at SXSW 2023, follows the lives of local outsiders and outcasts who violently intertwine when a rare Lakota Ghost shirt falls onto the black market in a small South Dakota town.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
16 June 2025
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Narrator Ryan Reynolds celebrates nature's outcasts in the new NatGeo docuseries Underdogs.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 June 2025
Adjective
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This is a very good sign after Middleton was absent from the Royal Ascot on June 18 which caused quite a stir.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
28 June 2025
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That tongue-in-cheek skepticism was absent from the nearly 3,000 people in attendance as a flurry of deals across the continent were announced.—
Yinka Adegoke,
semafor.com,
27 June 2025
Noun
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Where we're not shunned as criminals or treated like lepers.—
Ryan Hampton,
Time,
28 May 2025
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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
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Arizona authorities made a dramatic rescue after a woman who went on a hike with her father went missing for three days.—
Audrey Conklin,
FOXNews.com,
24 June 2025
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The girls, who ranged in age from 12 to 16, all went missing in the mid-1990s from Spotsylvania County, Va.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
24 June 2025
Noun
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The Biden administration repeatedly used such votes to depict Russia as a pariah state.—
Dave Lawler,
Axios,
4 Mar. 2025
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The pariahs deemed monstrous, Ne Zha included, might have within them a more commendable moral compass.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Until then, death and distance blurred together, letters had stopped but the anticipation of returning and seeing my grandmother again, even as a ghost—that sweet suspension of disbelief that exile allows—must have sustained her.—
Jhumpa Lahiri,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
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In 1492, after conquering the last Muslim stronghold in Spain, monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella gave the remaining Spanish Jews the choice of conversion or exile.—
Flora Cassen,
The Conversation,
27 June 2025
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“Castaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/castaway. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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