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dystopia

[dis-toh-pee-uh] / dɪsˈtoʊ pi ə /


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Vara’s acclaimed debut is a sweeping father-daughter tale that encompasses science fiction, climate change, dystopia, capitalism and family drama.

From Seattle Times

Their jarring appearance is meant to drive home the notion that Israel, which portrays itself as the Middle East’s lone democracy, could morph into a chilling dystopia where women are stripped of their rights.

From Seattle Times

“All utopias are dystopias,” he said during a conversation this month in the ramshackle office he has inhabited on the Sausalito, Calif., waterfront since the early 1970s.

From New York Times

In other words, if we read the law literally, it would create the kind of gender-less dystopia that conservatives are always claiming liberals want, where any acknowledgment of maleness or femaleness is erased entirely.

From Salon

Both turn out disastrously unworkable; dystopias of the past and the future that together cast a chilling shadow over our present.

From Los Angeles Times