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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adjective

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Recent Examples of castaway
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
  • This man shows up dressed up like a Pentecostal deacon’s son headed to the 2018 NBA draft, only to end up a fifth-round reject.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Dickinson gives us nonjudgmental access to the day-to-day existence of one among any number of unhoused addicts, while Dillane presents Mike with all the prickly edges of a societal reject.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
Adjective
  • As his story gained traction, even a private investigator reached out to help find the lost dog.
    Luke Chinman, People.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • That can mean millions of dollars in lost production.
    Jim Vinoski, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Noun
  • Maybe Happy Ending is the offbeat and captivating story of Oliver and Claire, two outcasts near the end of their warranty who discover that even robots can be swept off their feet.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 24 July 2025
  • The likelihood that Canada would ship gas to other markets increased when Russia invaded Ukraine and made Moscow a global trade outcast, said Prof. Kent Fellows, an energy economist at the University of Calgary.
    New York Times, New York Times, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • Isak has been absent from Newcastle’s pre-season tour of Asia, with sources, speaking anonymously as they were not authorised to do so publicly, saying the decision was the player’s preference.
    David Ornstein, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Kugler was absent from the Fed’s latest meeting, in which officials voted to hold borrowing costs steady for the fifth consecutive time.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Its history is complicated, having served as a leper colony for a hundred years.
    Juliana Shallcross, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Where we're not shunned as criminals or treated like lepers.
    Ryan Hampton, Time, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • In July, the DOJ released a tape recording of the camera in his prison cell leading to allegations there were some missing minutes, three according to an examination of the metadata by Wired.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 July 2025
  • The pigs are playing an unlikely role as proxies for humans in research to help find the staggering number of people who have gone missing in Mexico during decades of drug cartel violence.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • The Biden administration repeatedly used such votes to depict Russia as a pariah state.
    Dave Lawler, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The pariahs deemed monstrous, Ne Zha included, might have within them a more commendable moral compass.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Avots plays Egil, a poet, farmer, murderer, sorcerer, ladies’ man, and a bit of a psychopath, who is seeking revenge on Erik Bloodaxe (Molyneux) for the exile of his family to Iceland by Erik’s father, King Harald Fairhair.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 July 2025
  • Two weeks later, Ayatollah Khomeini returned from his decade and a half of exile.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 13 July 2025

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