post-apocalyptic world

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post-apocalyptic
adjective
uk
/ˌpəʊst.ə.pɒk.əˈlɪp.tɪk/us
/ˌpoʊst.ə.pɑːk.əˈlɪp.t̬ɪk/
describing or relating to the situation after the destruction of the world, or to an extremely bad situation in which it seems as if the world has ...
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world
noun
uk
/wɜːld/us
/wɝːld/
the earth and all the people, places, and things ...
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Set in apost-apocalypticworld, the series chronicles the year 1999 in short novels which represent individual months of the year.
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The guests supposedly include everyone, implying everyone in the world; there are other implications that this is apost-apocalypticworld.
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He awakens instead in 2133, emerging into a chaoticpost-apocalypticworld.
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This book is extremely detailed in its discussion of certain techniques and preparations needed in apost-apocalypticworld.
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She shows them apost-apocalypticworld, and asks them to help prevent it from coming about.
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The vogue part shows two children in apost-apocalypticworldfinding a sketchbook buried underground.
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In the game, the player controls a character that awakes in a cryogenics laboratory to a ruined,post-apocalypticworld.
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It is set in apost-apocalypticworldin which the characters typically have to fight for food, water, basic supplies and shelter.
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The team envisioned apost-apocalypticworldfull of exotic monsters and no hallmark fantasy creatures whatsoever.
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The series is set in apost-apocalypticworldwhere the same nature was torn and mutated.
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Set in a flooded,post-apocalypticworld, the game consists of players fighting over control of the world's last remaining oil reserves.
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The object of the game is to survive life in thepost-apocalypticworldby battling survivalists and collecting resources.
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The story is a masculine character study as the two evolve and adapt to the changes in thepost-apocalypticworld.
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The series is set in apost-apocalypticworldin which humans, animals, and intelligent machines battle endlessly for supremacy.
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The film is set in apost-apocalypticworld.
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The video appears to be set in apost-apocalypticworld.
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The video plays out in apost-apocalypticworld.
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Set in apost-apocalypticworld, it follows the journey of the last elf as he seeks out the last dragon so that the world can be renewed.
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Most notably it takes place in apost-apocalypticworldwhere radiation has caused the human race to mutate and the dead to rise from the grave.
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In the song, the narrator wanders through apost-apocalypticworldin search of experience, sampling all facets of human culture and hoping to find meaning in life.
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