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Recent Examples of castaways
Being chosen to participate in such a landmark season is a dream and knowing all the castaways that did not make it here is humbling.
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Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
The cafe’s opening in the 305 is pegged to the 50th season of the iconic series, in which a group of castaways in a remote location are forced to fend for themselves while the world watches.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
Savannah Louie won and beat out 17 contestants — including the other two final castaways, Sophi Balerdi and Sage Ahrens-Nichols.
—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
Previous castaways that will play (again) in the 50th season have been announced via CBS's Instagram.
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 20 Nov. 2025
Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
The cafe’s opening in the 305 is pegged to the 50th season of the iconic series, in which a group of castaways in a remote location are forced to fend for themselves while the world watches.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
Savannah Louie won and beat out 17 contestants — including the other two final castaways, Sophi Balerdi and Sage Ahrens-Nichols.
—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
Previous castaways that will play (again) in the 50th season have been announced via CBS's Instagram.
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 20 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for castaways
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Badly in Love brings together societal outcasts — individuals who have lived beyond conventional rules and etiquette — in search of love and redemption.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Jan. 2026
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There’s a cast of wanderers, visionaries, and itinerants, the self-educated and self-published, a long lineage of cranks and outcasts, mostly penurious, always opinionated, stretching away into the mists of pseudohistory.—
Hari Kunzru,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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
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Kurdish exiles claim Iranian attack in Iraq The National Army of Kurdistan, the armed wing of the Kurdistan Freedom Party, or PAK, claimed Iran launched an attack against one of its bases near Irbil, some 200 miles north of Baghdad.—
Jon Gambrell,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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The Rubio factor In the past, many Cuban exiles and Cuban American hardliners have strongly opposed negotiations with the Cuban government.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
21 Jan. 2026
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Ira, so with a trade the team will be Bam Adebayo, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Nikola Jovic and a bunch of G Leaguers or castoffs.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Feb. 2026
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Her vision is to call on the regions where the United Kingdom offloads its castoffs—say, West Africa or Eastern Europe—to re-manufacture it as well.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Traditionally, scientists and doctors who have questioned vaccine safety, and even the benefits of vaccines, have quickly become pariahs.—
Will Carless,
USA Today,
20 Jan. 2026
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Few if any of the originators attend now that the Santas are less social pariahs and law breakers and more fraternity brothers and junior bankers.—
Chuck Palahniuk,
Vulture,
13 Nov. 2025
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