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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castaway

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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 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 There's an infinity pool, a lagoon pool with two slides and a stretch of sandy beach with a castaway theme right down to its weather outlook system – a coconut hanging from a branch next to a sign telling visitors what conditions to expect based on the appearance of the shell. Caroline Reid, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024 With a dreamy castaway village vibe, Mahekal Beach Resort is one of the best all-inclusive resorts in Playa del Carmen for a few reasons. Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 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
  • The Nordic nations, including Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, ranked in the top 10 countries and were among the top places for expected and actual return of lost wallets, the report said.
    Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • These inefficiencies take their toll in the form of lost strategic opportunities.
    Alex Saric, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Most people are looking for a young and friendly family dog, but there are a few of us out there who have a soft spot for the outcasts with a bit of a temper.
    Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The story follows Anna, an outcast who discovers her deceased roommate’s diary and encounters a ghostly flame embodying her spirit.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Mitchell was absent from Thursday's floor session where the vote to expel Eichorn would have taken place.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Similarly, absent a narrow exception, FBAR duties arise for a U.S. beneficiary who has a greater than 50 percent present beneficial interest in the assets or income of the trust for the calendar year.
    Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.D., Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In this story, Buddha reaches out to the homeless leper teaching us that true compassion transcends fear and stigma.
    Rabbi Dana Magat, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Winning Is Everything, Stupid, by Matt Tyrnauer, goes deep into what shaped James Carville’s incorrigible character, including his Catholic, working-class youth in Carville—a Louisiana town with fewer than 900 inhabitants, almost half of them inmates at the local leper colony.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 3 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • The teaser showed Julia Garner as a teacher whose entire classroom of kids goes missing — but only her classroom.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 1 Apr. 2025
  • After his bacon had gone missing from the counter, a dog owner asked Reddit users to guess which of his pups was the culprit.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Russia has been committing crimes against humanity and has become an international pariah.
    Katya Soldak, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Syria itself is an international pariah under Western sanctions linked to the war.
    Mehmet Guzel, Ghaith Alsayed and Suzan Fraser, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2023
Noun
  • Today, many alternative news sources are widely available, including independent Russian outlets, many of which have been in exile since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
    Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The newspaper, controlled by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, depicted Alinejad cowering in fear beneath the captive forms of two dissidents the regime had lured back to Iran from exile and executed.
    Karl Vick, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025

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