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Recent Examples of dystopia
Richard Sutherland Lakeland America has become a dystopia A dystopia is a community where the order of the day is to bring servitude, misery, poverty, inequality, injustice and suffering.
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Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 July 2025
Cultural or behavioral changes can signal a dystopia even more radically than a technology or a gadget.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
Every good dystopia is a reflection of real-world politics; Suzanne Collins wrote The Hunger Games after seeing the war in Iraq juxtaposed with reality TV, and The Handmaid’s Tale stitches Gilead from real atrocities governments have committed against women.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Courtesy of Netflix Every day, the world seems to be slipping further and further into dystopia, with President Donald Trump placing tariffs on islands inhabited by penguins and the country's head of Medicare and Medicaid touting AI-first health care.
—Corey Atad, Wired News, 11 Apr. 2025
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Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 July 2025
Cultural or behavioral changes can signal a dystopia even more radically than a technology or a gadget.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025
Every good dystopia is a reflection of real-world politics; Suzanne Collins wrote The Hunger Games after seeing the war in Iraq juxtaposed with reality TV, and The Handmaid’s Tale stitches Gilead from real atrocities governments have committed against women.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Courtesy of Netflix Every day, the world seems to be slipping further and further into dystopia, with President Donald Trump placing tariffs on islands inhabited by penguins and the country's head of Medicare and Medicaid touting AI-first health care.
—Corey Atad, Wired News, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dystopia
hell
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With love, with longing, with righteous rage or shameful guilt, on a sacrificial pyre or in the eternal flames of hell: There are so many ways to burn.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
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An original work set in the world of 1950s ping pong culture, the film tells the story of Marty Mauser (Chalamet), a young man with a dream no one respects, who goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Dystopia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dystopia. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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