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Recent Examples of dystopian
Do you at all worry that someone could be put off by the dystopian feel of Hungry?
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 26 Jan. 2026
Created by Handmaid’s Tale showrunner and executive producer Bruce Miller, the coming-of-age story is set in the dystopian theocracy of Gilead more than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, that finds a new generation of young women grappling with the bleak future that awaits them.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
Based on the novel by Stephen King, The Running Man is a dystopian sci-fi movie about a reality TV show where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
The ground was laid for an already dystopian 2026.
—Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
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Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 26 Jan. 2026
Created by Handmaid’s Tale showrunner and executive producer Bruce Miller, the coming-of-age story is set in the dystopian theocracy of Gilead more than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, that finds a new generation of young women grappling with the bleak future that awaits them.
—Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 Jan. 2026
Based on the novel by Stephen King, The Running Man is a dystopian sci-fi movie about a reality TV show where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
The ground was laid for an already dystopian 2026.
—Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dystopian
earthly
Adjective
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Cognition and sensorimotor functions emerged from the evolutionary pressures of an unpredictable earthly environment.—
Rachel Barr,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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For reasons still not wholly understood, these ultradense objects—each about the mass of our star squeezed into a bizarre, city-sized ball of degenerate quantum matter—undergo starquakes in which the material on the surface shifts a bit like in an earthly tremor.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Dystopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dystopian. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
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