as in anti-utopia
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Recent Examples of dystopia
Costume designer Sarah Evelyn’s excellent work make the dystopia feel uncomfortably normal and exceptionally realistic.
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Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
The author puts her abiding preoccupations — with conformity, sexuality and family — in a petri dish and incubates a disquieting dystopia in which artificial insemination has become the global norm.
—Madeleine Feeny, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
The Handmaid's Tale's final season saw a revolution come to Gilead, with the abused women of this dystopia rising up to slaughter the patriarchal class and take back the U.S.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 May 2025
The Handmaid’s Tale, starring Elisabeth Moss, is a show about a near-future dystopia in which women are stripped of their rights and essentially reduced to nothing more than human incubators.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 20 May 2025
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Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025
The author puts her abiding preoccupations — with conformity, sexuality and family — in a petri dish and incubates a disquieting dystopia in which artificial insemination has become the global norm.
—Madeleine Feeny, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
The Handmaid's Tale's final season saw a revolution come to Gilead, with the abused women of this dystopia rising up to slaughter the patriarchal class and take back the U.S.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 May 2025
The Handmaid’s Tale, starring Elisabeth Moss, is a show about a near-future dystopia in which women are stripped of their rights and essentially reduced to nothing more than human incubators.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dystopia
hell
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Season two saw Valerie cast in an HBO project about the sitcom writer who made her life hell in season one, earning widespread acclaim professionally even as her personal life was falling apart.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
27 June 2025
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There’s more pressing current affairs to attend to right now, and hell, there’s a new Lorde album to bop to.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
27 June 2025
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“Dystopia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dystopia. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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