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Recent Examples of dystopia
Budgets can move from funding a surveillance dystopia to funding real safety and stability.
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Robin Reichhardt, Denver Post, 25 Nov. 2025
The real dystopia isn’t killer robots.
—Erica Dhawan, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2025
That’s one of the many emerging terrors of our brave new funhouse-mirror dystopia of e-scams, cat-phishing, and democracy-destroying propaganda.
—New Atlas, 15 Nov. 2025
To that point, one of the foundational strengths of Wright’s film is its refreshingly gentle approach to aestheticizing dystopia.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
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Robin Reichhardt, Denver Post, 25 Nov. 2025
The real dystopia isn’t killer robots.
—Erica Dhawan, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2025
That’s one of the many emerging terrors of our brave new funhouse-mirror dystopia of e-scams, cat-phishing, and democracy-destroying propaganda.
—New Atlas, 15 Nov. 2025
To that point, one of the foundational strengths of Wright’s film is its refreshingly gentle approach to aestheticizing dystopia.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 11 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dystopia
hell
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The gates of hell are opened — and Maria (Sarah Sherman) is thrown out the window three times!—
Andy Hoglund,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Feb. 2026
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Denver author Josiah Hesse was raised by Evangelical parents in churches that believe in the torments of hell, that their poverty is due to their sinfulness and lack of faith.—
Sandra Dallas,
Denver Post,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Dystopia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dystopia. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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