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Recent Examples of castaway
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
Other family-friendly activities include castaway picnic lunches on one of Kanuhura’s two uninhabited private islands, sunset dolphin cruises, and family cooking classes using ingredients grown in Kanuhura’s organic garden.
—Jessica Vincent, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2024
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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
Other family-friendly activities include castaway picnic lunches on one of Kanuhura’s two uninhabited private islands, sunset dolphin cruises, and family cooking classes using ingredients grown in Kanuhura’s organic garden.
—Jessica Vincent, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for castaway
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Led by the foul-mouthed and fouler-smelling Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), the team of rejects consists of River Cartwright (Jack Lowden), Roddy Ho (Christopher Chung), Louisa Guy (Rosalind Eleazar) and Catherine Standish (Saskia Reeves) among others including newcomer, J.K. Coe (Thomas Brooke).Erik Kain, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
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The true stab here isn’t just that Donald lied to Roy on his deathbed, or that Donald would so callously reject the friend who turned him from an outer-borough reject into a mover and shaker within Manhattan.Constance Grady, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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That has roughly tripled its lost exposure to $458 billion over the same period.Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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That’s the equivalent of about a full work week and amounts to $771 in lost time.Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 7 Jan. 2025
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Duvall played town outcast, Boo Radley, opposite Gregory Peck’s Atticus Finch and Mary Badham’s Scout.Brendan Le, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
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Gary Oldman leads a tremendous cast in this series about MI5 outcasts confined to Slough House.Erik Kain, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025
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Aside from a few minor announcements, mobile phone makers and their products were largely absent from CES.Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 10 Jan. 2025
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Predictions of a downturn, once omnipresent, were mostly absent from the year-ahead forecasts that major financial firms typically send around to clients over the holidays.Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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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
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But one thing’s for sure—there were some among them who chose to become lepers.Lee Chang-dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
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Last month, Hamas said that 33 detainees had been killed through the conflict and that more had gone missing, blaming Netanyahu for the situation.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Authorities have found the second body in their search for two brothers who had gone missing during a duck-hunting trip in Northern California last month.Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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Russia has been committing crimes against humanity and has become an international pariah.Katya Soldak, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
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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
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The man the United States and others say won the election, Edmundo González, remains in exile, forced to flee to Spain or face arrest, while the country’s most important opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has been in hiding inside Venezuela.Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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Those detained recently include the director of a freedom of speech group, and the son in law of Edmundo González, the retired diplomat who became the opposition's stand-in candidate in July's election, and is now in exile.Manuel Rueda, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Castaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/castaway. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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