dystopian future

collocation in English

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dystopian
adjective
uk
/dɪsˈtəʊ.pi.ən/us
/dɪsˈtoʊ.pi.ən/
relating to a very bad or unfair society in which there is a lot of suffering, especially an imaginary society in the future, or to the description of such ...
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future
noun
uk
/ˈfjuː.tʃər/us
/ˈfjuː.tʃɚ/
a period of time that is ...
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Based on an earlier short story of the same title, it is set in adystopianfuture.
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Stylistically, the game tries not to depict adystopianfuture, but a future where propaganda from each side paints everything in bright colours.
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He goes on the run across adystopianfuturelandscape of ruined ecologies and elaborate entertainment facilities, often encountering others with strange abilities and mutations.
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They are set in adystopianfuturein which people are allowed to live only one day of the week.
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Even in adystopianfuture, there's a better future.
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Before the loss of magic he received a vision of adystopianfutureif magic does not return to the world.
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He went on to praise the lyrical meaning of the tracks as well as their relevance to a possibledystopianfuture.
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The technological revolution themes and lyrics inspired by adystopianfuturewere also praised as being deeper than many other bands of the genre.
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The series combines elements of science-fiction, cyberpunk, and horror, to tell the story of a post-apocalypticdystopianfuture.
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The story is set in adystopianfuturein which an overpopulated world solves the problem by allocating people only one day per week.
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Apocalyptic fiction is not the same as fiction that provides visions of adystopianfuture.
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Though there is no continuity involved in the strip, it frequently features adystopianfuture, often involving robots.
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It deals with adystopianfuturein which mutants are incarcerated in internment camps.
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The video depicts adystopianfuturein which schoolchildren wearing gas masks are playing amidst black snow and a red sky.
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Trask is arrested for selling military secrets to foreign powers, erasing thedystopianfutureseen earlier in the film.
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His strip adventures have placed him firmly in the science fiction genre, in adystopianfuture(2262).
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Set in adystopianfuture, it features the hybrid that results when the brain-patterns and memory of a dying girl are transferred into the brain of a chimpanzee.
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It is a concept album that follows the narrative of adystopianfuturein which the world population are subject to large-scale brainwashing by corporate leaders.
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The story is a satirical look at adystopianfuturein which time is strictly regulated and everyone must do everything according to an extremely precise time schedule.
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