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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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As the doppelganger charms the internet and devises a nefarious plot to replace mankind with brainrot, Shiori must partner with other online outcasts to stop her digital counterpart and reclaim her life in the real world.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
5 Feb. 2026
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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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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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The exiles who fled immediately after the 1959 revolution for political reasons constitute a smaller share of the overall Cuban diaspora than commonly assumed.—
Michael Paarlberg,
The Conversation,
12 Feb. 2026
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Legal cases in Spain Concerns over Rodríguez Torres’ human-rights record have also reached Spanish courts, where a group of Venezuelan exiles filed a criminal complaint accusing him of torture and crimes against humanity.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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But the visitors from Memphis were a husk of that outfit, a cavalcade of new faces and Golden State castoffs being observed by the ghost of Ja Morant garbed in street clothes.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 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
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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