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  1. dystopianadjective

    of or pertaining to or resembling a dystopia

    Antonyms:
    visionary, windy, impractical, Laputan, utopian, airy

  2. dystopianadjective

    as bad as can be; characterized by human misery

    "AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages"- Susan Sontag

    Antonyms:
    impractical, airy, utopian, windy, visionary, Laputan

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  1. Rebecca Todd Peters:

    There are a whole lot more who support bodily autonomy for mothers to make decisions about life and how many children they have and who they have them with and how to shape their future with or without partners, we've allowed a minority religious belief to curtail the rights of the majority of women in the country. I feel like I'm in the middle of a dystopian novel.

  2. Neema Guliani:

    Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is right to back a temporary ban on face recognition -- and the United States should likewise halt law enforcement use of this technology without delay. As reports this weekend further confirmed, unethical surveillance companies will not wait for regulations before pushing their untested, error-prone and dystopian face tracking technologies on police departments across the country and the world.

  3. Erika Berenguer:

    It is very unlikely, if not dystopian, to expect that an area half the size of Europe will experience a complete shift in vegetation in just 50 years, while there is no doubt that the Amazon is at great risk and that a tipping point is likely, such inflated claims do not help either science or policy making.

  4. Mike Lee:

    We don't arrest people before they commit crimes. That's the sort of thing that's reserved for bad post-apocalyptic dystopian novels and movies.

  5. Jeffrey Gracer:

    The rest of corporate America is saying it doesn’t make much sense for us to live in a dystopian world.


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