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Recent Examples of dystopia
If some of the K-dramas on this list offer a much needed escape from the brutalities of our lived dystopia, Squid Game refused to shy away from capitalism’s most despicable conclusions.
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Kayti Burt, Time, 18 Dec. 2025
Budgets can move from funding a surveillance dystopia to funding real safety and stability.
—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
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Kayti Burt, Time, 18 Dec. 2025
Budgets can move from funding a surveillance dystopia to funding real safety and stability.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dystopia
hell
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After Cas pulls Dean out of hell, fans (and Collins himself) shipped the two (#Destiel) devotedly, and the show’s writers would occasionally throw some queerbaiting bones their way.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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Middle school is hell on earth.—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Dystopia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dystopia. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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