as in anti-utopia
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Recent Examples of dystopia
But Postman, then a professor of culture and media studies at NYU, believed Americans were fixated on the wrong dystopia.
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Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Michael Lentz’s novel Schattenfroh portrays a dystopia in which consciousness itself is just another commodity.
—Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 4 Sep. 2025
Privacy advocates say the company is building an unprecedented mass-surveillance dystopia.
—Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Still, dystopia as envisioned by the movie’s directors, the Wachowskis (and their collaborators, on that film, particularly in production and costume design), looks pretty rad, in cinematic terms.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
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Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Michael Lentz’s novel Schattenfroh portrays a dystopia in which consciousness itself is just another commodity.
—Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 4 Sep. 2025
Privacy advocates say the company is building an unprecedented mass-surveillance dystopia.
—Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Still, dystopia as envisioned by the movie’s directors, the Wachowskis (and their collaborators, on that film, particularly in production and costume design), looks pretty rad, in cinematic terms.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dystopia
hell
Noun
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Yes, these Eagles have been to hell.—
Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
29 Sep. 2025
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The press helped to turn public opinion against the war, not because the press was antiwar or even had a politics but because war is hell, and hell is photogenic.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Dystopia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dystopia. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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