cloud-cuckoo-land

noun

Definition of cloud-cuckoo-landnext
as in utopia

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Recent Examples of cloud-cuckoo-land Already the viewer is in cloud-cuckoo-land; the pavement might as well erupt with the sandworms of Arrakis. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
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  1. utopia
  2. cloudland
  3. nightmare
  4. imaging
Noun
  • Tejedor is a Swiss filmmaker and journalist whose work explores utopias and the relationship between individuals and authority across the former Soviet Union and its satellite states.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • There still exists in him the hope for a return to his idealistic notion of the box being a portal for dimensional advancement, where diseases could be cured, peace could be achieved, and a techno-utopia might be possible across all worlds.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of utopia
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  • In an intoxicated fever dream, Don Quixote ascends to a mythical cloudland full of dancing dryads.
    — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2022
Definition of cloudland
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  • Yes, but this doesn’t save a business from the compliance nightmare.
    — Daniel Kjellén, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • At the dawn of the twentieth century, fears of food scarcity were a rational nightmare.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of nightmare
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  • Those discoveries led to the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR, in the 1940s and eventually to its application for imaging in the 1970s.
    — Mattanjah de Vries, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
  • May noted that imaging below the surface by agency staff showed a distinct plume of highly polluted wastewater rising from deep underground, where injection took place.
    — Nick Bowlin, ProPublica, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of imaging

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