cloud-cuckoo-land

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Noun
  • The video then about-faces towards a utopia where people have toed the left-wing climate change line and saved the planet.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That is the hope of the novel, the utopia of the novel—but not its reality.
    Karl Ove Knausgaard, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In an intoxicated fever dream, Don Quixote ascends to a mythical cloudland full of dancing dryads.
    Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2022
Noun
  • Fallibility is written into our genetic code, and refereeing is basically a nightmare now for everyone involved.
    Megan Feringa, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
  • But more than just a topical procedural thriller, the film also plays out like a Kafka novel about endless invasions of privacy and assumptions of malicious intent that converge to form a modern nightmare.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Sony’s imaging and sensing solutions segment develops and manufactures advanced semiconductor products for a wide range of applications, from smartphones to automotive and industrial systems.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Those market factors contributed to a landscape where a dose of the antiviral Paxlovid given in a hospital costs $4,500; magnetic resonance imaging costs $15,000; and joint replacements cost $100,000.
    Elisabeth Rosenthal, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025
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“Cloud-cuckoo-land.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloud-cuckoo-land. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.

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