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Recent Examples of castaways
Overall, 12 castaways remain to compete next week.
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Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 23 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
The premiere will introduce viewers to the cast, the castaways will build shelters and early alliances, the first immunity challenge will take place and first tribal council will see the first person get voted out.
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Petty received a number of congratulatory messages in her comments, including from a few other Survivor castaways.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
Fantastic Four is a close second, sure, but Florence Pugh leading a group of depressed villain castaways was the film that really felt like more of a return to form for the MCU.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
Not only are the new crop of castaways competing for $1 million prize, but two of the contestants will also return for next year's all-star 50th season.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 23 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
The premiere will introduce viewers to the cast, the castaways will build shelters and early alliances, the first immunity challenge will take place and first tribal council will see the first person get voted out.
—Christopher Kuhagen, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Petty received a number of congratulatory messages in her comments, including from a few other Survivor castaways.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2025
Fantastic Four is a close second, sure, but Florence Pugh leading a group of depressed villain castaways was the film that really felt like more of a return to form for the MCU.
—Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2025
Not only are the new crop of castaways competing for $1 million prize, but two of the contestants will also return for next year's all-star 50th season.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for castaways
Noun
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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
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Sharing the same gray pallor to their skin, the pair take comfort in one another as fellow outcasts.—
Samantha Allen,
Them.,
7 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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Today, Venezuela has the largest population of exiles in the Americas and the second largest in the world after Syria — despite not being in a civil war — with more than 8 million people living abroad.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
10 Oct. 2025
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Six years later, he was assigned to be a pastor at a church in Bay Ridge, where the pews, once occupied by Norwegian immigrants, were filling up with Arab Christians, many of them Palestinian exiles.—
Eric Lach,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 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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This suggests that the Kinahans remain bedfellows with geopolitical pariahs.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement The presence of India’s prime minister provided some democratic gloss to this parade of pariahs.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Castaways.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/castaways. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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