cloud-cuckoo-land

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Noun
  • These civic footings carry the architecture of socialist monumentality and New York sidewalks, evoking both town square and cemetery, utopia and capital.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Where the youthful Marx sketched utopias, the mature Marx turned to economics and praxis.
    Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 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
  • People who have extreme nightmares from PTSD can use NightWare, a prescription-only system that comes with a preprogrammed Apple Watch and detects if the wearer is having a nightmare.
    Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2025
  • In the decades since, gothic nightmares like Crimson Peak and supernatural horrors like Poltergeist have risen as staples of the subgenre.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Although the new commercial space ethos of building satellites fast and cheap has dominated Earth imaging from space for years, deep-space astronomy has so far been headed mostly in the opposite direction — trending toward more complex machines worth billions of dollars.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Banks will discuss how hormones and inflammation may influence Alzheimer’s risk; why women are disproportionately affected; the role of genetics and brain imaging in unlocking answers and lifestyle choices that may help protect memory and cognition.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
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“Cloud-cuckoo-land.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloud-cuckoo-land. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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