as in anti-utopia
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Recent Examples of dystopia
The Handmaid’s Tale, starring Elisabeth Moss, is a show about a near-future dystopia in which women are stripped of their rights and essentially reduced to nothing more than human incubators.
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Sam Reed, Glamour, 20 May 2025
Elisabeth Moss was so perfect as June Osborne—or Offred in the terrifying dystopia of Gilead—and the rest of the cast was also brilliant.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
The loss of human-to-human contact is a central theme in Death Stranding and arguably both the lead cause and cost of the dystopia that the game imagines.
—G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
And with a large part of its development coming from right here in Silicon Valley, Californians will have to lead the charge developing the regulations, norms and usage that prevent AI from ushering in a dystopia of inequality.
—Karim Doumar, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2025
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Sam Reed, Glamour, 20 May 2025
Elisabeth Moss was so perfect as June Osborne—or Offred in the terrifying dystopia of Gilead—and the rest of the cast was also brilliant.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
The loss of human-to-human contact is a central theme in Death Stranding and arguably both the lead cause and cost of the dystopia that the game imagines.
—G Kirilloff, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
And with a large part of its development coming from right here in Silicon Valley, Californians will have to lead the charge developing the regulations, norms and usage that prevent AI from ushering in a dystopia of inequality.
—Karim Doumar, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dystopia
hell
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The voices in Brian’s head – and a resurrection While bringing to life many of the band’s iconic songs, Wilson was also plunging deep into his personal hell, taking drugs including hashish, amphetamines and LSD.—
Christina Maxouris,
CNN Money,
11 June 2025
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Here, The Athletic spoke to some of the team’s long-distance supporters who make the journey through rain or shine, hell or high water, to Villa Park… Jay White lives on the Isle of Wight.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
10 June 2025
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“Dystopia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dystopia. Accessed 27 Jun. 2025.
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