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The Upside Down is not a mirror dimension, but actually a wormhole/bridge to a separate dystopian world, The Abyss, which breeds all the Demogorgons and Demodogs.
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Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2025
In truth, the full bush conversation has been a welcome bit of body positivity in a beauty landscape which has often felt very bleak, if not downright dystopian.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 23 Dec. 2025
Evita added, referencing Orwell, the author behind the dystopian speculative fiction novel, 1984, which has a focus on mass surveillance.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025
In Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Stephen King's novel, Powell's Ben Richards is a father living in a dystopian society, unable to get a job and provide for his sick child.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
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Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 29 Dec. 2025
In truth, the full bush conversation has been a welcome bit of body positivity in a beauty landscape which has often felt very bleak, if not downright dystopian.
—Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 23 Dec. 2025
Evita added, referencing Orwell, the author behind the dystopian speculative fiction novel, 1984, which has a focus on mass surveillance.
—Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 19 Dec. 2025
In Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Stephen King's novel, Powell's Ben Richards is a father living in a dystopian society, unable to get a job and provide for his sick child.
—Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 16 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dystopian
earthly
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This was his Leviathan, an earthly sovereign power that humans rationally create to escape the chaos of the state of nature.—
Gal Beckerman,
The Atlantic,
10 Jan. 2026
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Sátántangó’s desolate landscapes, dominated by mud, wind, and overcast skies, summoned a vision of earthly purgatory unrivaled in almost all of cinema.—
Tim Grierson,
Rolling Stone,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Dystopian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dystopian. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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