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Recent Examples of anti-utopian
Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Noun
This dreamscape of the island, like that of the jungle, illuminates in children’s literature a sense of utopia and longing about childhood as a not-quite-place, situated in an irretrievable past-yet-future, while at the same time rooted in an anti-utopian logic of adulthood.
—Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anti-utopian
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The silent sci-fi film, which depicts a dystopian future in which the wealthy upper class prospers in a utopia while the working class lives and toils in a dismal underground society, was released in theaters in 1927.—
Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 June 2026
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The dystopian cast of this tale was a result of my prompt.—
Adam Kirsch,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2026
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Many will recognize him as a big-dino hunter in The Lost World (1997), a German nihilist in The Big Lebowski, a diabolical black-market eye surgeon in Minority Report (2002), or the devil himself in Constantine (2005).—
Danny Horn,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Mar. 2026
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As criminal cases have increased against members of violent nihilist groups, related abuse reports have also risen.—
Curt Devine,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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The realist recognizes this series has had two games that were toss-ups and one where the Knicks were just better, longer.—
David Troy OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
10 June 2026
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In San Jose, Cohen has developed a reputation as a principled realist who has pursued progress over purity.—
Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards,
Mercury News,
1 June 2026
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But the fatalist in me feels like this stuff is coming.—
Selome Hailu,
Variety,
19 Feb. 2026
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Of course, cynics would say this is an easy way to get laughs, but Galifianakis’ quick wit ensures the unfiltered youngsters don’t always take center stage.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
22 Apr. 2026
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The cynics are figures like Sam Bankman-Fried, who built a fortune off of a crypto exchange called FTX, which crashed and burned in the fall of 2022, eventually sending Bankman-Fried to prison for fraud.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
7 Apr. 2026
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In embracing a rapprochement with the United States under President Obama, Raúl Castro, long seen as an ideologue by Cubanologists, played the hand of a pragmatist.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
21 May 2026
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Larijani oversaw the bloody repression of protesters in January but was widely seen as a pragmatist, and more moderate than Zolghadr.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Anti-utopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anti-utopian. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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