as in anti-utopia
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Recent Examples of dystopia
Over the last three decades, Rick Owens has built a universe with its own fashion vernacular—a world where high fashion meets dystopia and rebellion is the ultimate form of self-expression.
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Irina Grechko, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2025
Marisol is forced to deal with the romantic obsession of a friend’s mentally ill brother, that friend’s disappearance, and being plunged into a landscape that’s less a dystopia than an apocalypse in process.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 10 Oct. 2025
There’s an atemporal quality to the film’s stylized alternate reality, which blends an old-world charm with signs of a technocratic dystopia, all contained to a few blocks in an imaginary town.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
Money talks, as we are reminded every single day in our late capitalist dystopia.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
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Irina Grechko, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2025
Marisol is forced to deal with the romantic obsession of a friend’s mentally ill brother, that friend’s disappearance, and being plunged into a landscape that’s less a dystopia than an apocalypse in process.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 10 Oct. 2025
There’s an atemporal quality to the film’s stylized alternate reality, which blends an old-world charm with signs of a technocratic dystopia, all contained to a few blocks in an imaginary town.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
Money talks, as we are reminded every single day in our late capitalist dystopia.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dystopia
hell
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The Shea Moisture Define & Shine Edge Gel slicks my edges back without snatching them to hell.—
Kayla Greaves,
Essence,
6 Nov. 2025
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That's hell for a kid to see that.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Dystopia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dystopia. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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