post-apocalyptic

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1. Occurring after an apocalypse or catastrophic event.

   Many of us feel the imminence of breakdown so acutely that we cope by entertaining ourselves with various versions of life in a post-apocalyptic bunker, streaming Apple’s Silo or Hulu’s Paradise.

   2025 April 13, Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, “The rise of end times fascism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

2. Of or pertaining to a fiction genre dealing with the collapse of society.

   Stephen King is an author of post-apocalyptic fiction.