How to Use cyberpunk in a Sentence

cyberpunk

noun
  • For the record, each model had crimped blonde cyberpunk hair, deep red lips, intense stares and stomps.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 June 2023
  • Here are all the craziest looks your favorite celebs have worn to the Met Ball. Taylor Swift Since 2008, Taylor's gone from curly-haired country to classic beauty to edgy cyberpunk.
    — Elizabeth Denton, Seventeen, 7 May 2018
  • Her songs draw on the cyberpunk heroism celebrated in our pages and pixels.
    — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • There are some great cyberpunk looks mixed in with the elves and dragons for fans of role playing games set in the modern day or galaxies far, far away.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Zero Day War Most cyberpunk games offer players a chance to hack the planet.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Some of them looked incredibly futuristic, some of them looked cyberpunk.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 26 June 2024
  • For the next few years, Marlinspike settled into a Bay Area scene that was, if not cyberpunk, at least punk.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 31 July 2016
  • The car silently and accurately slinks around curves, with the precision of sci-fi cyberpunk killer snake assassin.
    — Kevin Williams, Popular Science, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The car silently and accurately slinks around curves, with the precision of sci-fi cyberpunk killer snake assassin.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But even as the clock winds back to 1941, McAnuff and his designers keep a heavy whiff of cyberpunk in the air.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Battle Angel, the cyberpunk epic based on the popular manga series, has very few bankable stars.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The Matrix is a classic hero’s-journey narrative, wrapped up in a cyberpunk dressing and stuffed with sci-fi hacker talk.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The company has some other fun things for aspiring cyberpunk car owners to play with — literally.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 29 June 2019
  • Now, Gong ventures into cyberpunk, a science fiction subgenre set in a dystopian future.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • For the final event before the big show, the remaining 12 entered the digital age in a cyberpunk standoff.
    — Emily Gaynor, Teen Vogue, 17 July 2017
  • Gibson was far from the first sci-fi writer to explore computers and their consequences; a movement, soon to be known as cyberpunk, was already under way.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
  • As such, a game that could play like a cyberpunk thriller often feels like a slice-of-life story, a trip through the most complex and detailed world Square Enix could muster.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The bracelet is like an anti-smartwatch, both in its cyberpunk aesthetic and in its purpose of defeating technology.
    — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Shadowrun took two of the most popular genres at the time—fantasy and cyberpunk—and brought them together that allowed cyborgs to shoot machine guns at dragons.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • First up is Cyberpunk 2077, the game about a dark cyberpunk future where Keanu Reeves never ages.
    — Julie Muncy, Wired, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Around two weeks ago, there seemed to be an explosion of interest in Off the Grid, a new battle royale set in a cyberpunk world that a number of top streamers were playing.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Doris Berger, the exhibitions curator, says cyberpunk is less a preview of tomorrow than a warning about the modern world.
    — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
  • This week’s picks include a Korean cyberpunk novel, a story collection set in Rome and the true story of a rowboat race across the Atlantic.
    — Shreya Chattopadhyay, New York Times, 5 July 2024
  • Its styling is wild and weird and wonderful, a medley of organic forms bisected by creases and LED lighting to form what looks like a cyberpunk canvas.
    — Daniel Golson, The Verge, 27 Oct. 2023
  • One of the most expensive anime films ever made, Ghost in the Shell came to theaters when cyberpunk stories were becoming massively popular.
    — Tiffany Kelly, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2017
  • These garments are often black, throwbacks to the cyberpunk look that dominated 1999’s The Matrix.
    — Nadra Nittle, Vox, 24 Oct. 2018
  • Perhaps the most exciting of these is an adaptation of Neil Stephenson's 1992 cyberpunk cult hit Snow Crash.
    — Sophie Weiner, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2017
  • With the third generation, released in 2019, the company clearly wanted a more avant-garde design language to evoke a cyberpunk aesthetic.
    — Anshel Sag, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The darker potential of technology is a staple of William Gibson’s and Bruce Sterling’s cyberpunk.
    — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2016
  • The project began after the two watched David Cronenberg’s 1983 sci-fi film Videodrome and were inspired by the film’s cyberpunk aesthetics; the album demos were just synths and drum machines.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2024

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