sci-fi

Example Sentences

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In a totalitarian sci-fi world, a hammer thrown by a young athlete smashes a "Big Brother" figure declaiming to brainwashed citizens from a vast screen.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

One of them, XPrize & Singularity University founder and chair Peter H. Diamandis, just launched a $3.5 million fund to promote optimistic sci-fi films to counter the AI doomsday narrative.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

Some of those involved in his prosecution had raised concerns that dozens of other sci-fi and gaming videos produced by McCullagh on the account still had the potential to make him money.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Weeks later, the entire display lit up with a full-screen ad for Apple TV’s sci-fi show “Pluribus.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

When we make first contact with the aliens in other universes and jabber at them in our local code, they cannot understand us without a sci-fi Universal Translator.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker