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Recent Examples of castaways
Previous castaways that will play (again) in the 50th season have been announced via CBS's Instagram.
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Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Other castaways were Survivor 44 star Maddy Pomilla; Survivor 45 stars Brandon Donlon, Brando Meyer, Julie Alley, Jake O’Kane, Kaleb Gebrewold, Kendra McQuarrie and Emily Flippen; Survivor 47 star Teeny Chirichillo; and Survivor 48 star Stephanie Berger.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
However, at least five expeditions to the island and the surrounding waters since 2010 have failed to find definitive proof that Earhart and Noonan were castaways.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
The 14 remaining castaways morphed into two tribes of seven, with the original Hina holding a majority alliance in one tribe, while the original Uli held a majority in the other.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
The show tests a group of castaways as they are stranded on the islands of Fiji.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Annie set her sights on Jake, and sure, a lot can be said of big and beefy castaways like Jake.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 1 Oct. 2025
Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 6 Nov. 2025
Other castaways were Survivor 44 star Maddy Pomilla; Survivor 45 stars Brandon Donlon, Brando Meyer, Julie Alley, Jake O’Kane, Kaleb Gebrewold, Kendra McQuarrie and Emily Flippen; Survivor 47 star Teeny Chirichillo; and Survivor 48 star Stephanie Berger.
—Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
However, at least five expeditions to the island and the surrounding waters since 2010 have failed to find definitive proof that Earhart and Noonan were castaways.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2025
The 14 remaining castaways morphed into two tribes of seven, with the original Hina holding a majority alliance in one tribe, while the original Uli held a majority in the other.
—Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
The show tests a group of castaways as they are stranded on the islands of Fiji.
—Dina Kaur, AZCentral.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Annie set her sights on Jake, and sure, a lot can be said of big and beefy castaways like Jake.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for castaways
Noun
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That’s Spanish for Saint Death, a scythe-wielding skeleton folk saint popular in Latin America as a guardian of outcasts.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
2 Nov. 2025
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The Twits don’t have a change of heart and end up as outcasts once more, but the film frames Beesha’s mercy toward them in a positive light.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Remember, the Lord Jesus did not fear lepers, and leprosy was (and continues to be) a highly contagious infectious disease.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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The town serves as the backdrop for what many surrounding the production consider the creative high point of the season — an episode 5 spaghetti western side mission that involves lepers, eye-gauging vultures, and a train pulled by zombies.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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No World Cup has been less about the self-aggrandizement of the hosts and yet no World Cup has ever been so overtly political as the 1938 tournament, as exiles from Germany and Italy took the opportunity to make very public their opposition to fascism.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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This against-the-odds plot had parallels to the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs incursion in Cuba, backed by the CIA and involving roughly 1,400 exiles.—
Kevin G. Hall,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The series, based on novels by Mick Herron, follows a band of castoffs from the British national security service who are relegated to a ramshackle office building, with Lamb at its head.—
Barbara Ellis,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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Yet Lemaire, his coaching staff and a bunch of expansion castoffs competed valiantly, and in 2003, just the third year of the franchise, rallied from a pair of 3-1 series deficits to shock the hockey world and advance to the Western Conference final.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Sorceresses, with their bewitching glamours and their constant meddling in affairs of state, are pariahs of a different kind.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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This suggests that the Kinahans remain bedfellows with geopolitical pariahs.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Castaways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/castaways. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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