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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cloud-cuckoo-lands
Noun
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Moursi traces the notion of islands as utopias to Plato’s description of Atlantis, written around 360 BCE.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Apr. 2026 -
The fleeting economic miracle in Venezuela, once the preferred destination for those departing La Palma, excited the imaginations of those who had seen or lived in the concrete modernist utopias of the tropics.—
Javier Montes,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Their evident fondness for one another, glowing warmly alongside all their sniping and whispering and eye-rolling, allows all the nightmares in Big Mistakes to feel like a lark rather than an incipient calamity.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
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Between the jealousy, paranoia, and a shocking cake-cutting scene that'd give any wedding planner a lifetime of nightmares, The Girlfriend puts a soapy, sexy, scary spin on well-trodden monster-in-law territory.—
Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The fictions of both films are factually contextualized from the start.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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Corporations are legal fictions — a game of pretend in which fictional entities are created, registering with the state.—
Kelly G. Richardson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Feb. 2026
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