dystopia
Example Sentences
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“Every dystopia is a history of the future,” she observes.
From Los Angeles Times
Just like a character from an Orwellian dystopia, he uses use words to obscure the truth, including irrelevant responses or feigning offense via denial.
From Salon
The utopia he appears to want is actually a misogynist dystopia.
From Salon
To skeptics, the prospect of a privately owned crypto company’s handling the biometric data from billions of people sounds like a recipe for dystopia, with echoes of the 2002 Tom Cruise film “Minority Report.”
From New York Times
I heard you say on a podcast that marginalized peoples are often better off in imagined dystopias than utopias.
From Salon
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