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sci-fi

[sahy-fahy] / ˈsaɪˌfaɪ /


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There was also an artist’s rendering of life on Mars that could easily have been a scene from the current season of Apple TV’s sci-fi drama “For All Mankind.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

Some of my very favorite actors — Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard, Clarke Peters and Geena Davis — starring in an eight-episode, B-grade sci-fi comedy-drama, “The Boroughs,” now streaming on Netflix.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

But if I am sci-fi dreaming, why can’t a computer that is much more powerful do everything?

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

"Comic and sci-fi conventions are a big pull for geeky people."

From BBC • May 21, 2026

When we make first contact with the aliens in other universes and jabber at them in our local code, they cannot understand us without a sci-fi Universal Translator.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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