cloud-cuckoo-land

Definition of cloud-cuckoo-landnext

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Noun
  • Winner of the Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Award 2025, the Centara Grand Lagoon Resort is nothing short of a tropical utopia.
    Deeya Sonalkar, TheWeek, 18 June 2026
  • John Maynard Keynes dreamed of an end to work, and some of the most radical and visionary progressive utopias today involve envisioning an abundant society beyond the need for labor.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2026
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
  • Throw in an undercover mission to catch a mall theft ring and Riley’s got herself a true nightmare before Christmas.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 26 June 2026
  • What initially seems like the perfect place for a rescue mission quickly turns into a nightmare.
    Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • However, improved imaging of the injury helped determined that was a misdiagnosis and Brown actually suffered this same stress reaction two years ago, providing a better understanding of why the 26-year-old took so long to recover properly.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • The doctors did another brain scan, this time with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan to get a better look at the lesions.
    Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
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“Cloud-cuckoo-land.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloud-cuckoo-land. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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