as in to lampoon
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Recent Examples of satirize
Sean Solo’s TikToks also satirize how a Hongdae man approaches women of different ethinicities and nationalities.
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 5 June 2025
With Illinois at the epicenter of a national and potentially global crisis, the play satirizes a range of all-American ideologues: conspiracy theorists, doomsday preachers, isolationists and jingoistic military types.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
This raises a lot of questions about satirizing acutely current events, and what to do when those events are on the verge of overtaking the satire.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
At that same ceremony, Saturday Night Live — which had veered heavily toward satirizing the Trump White House — enjoyed its best showing in years.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 3 May 2025
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 5 June 2025
With Illinois at the epicenter of a national and potentially global crisis, the play satirizes a range of all-American ideologues: conspiracy theorists, doomsday preachers, isolationists and jingoistic military types.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
This raises a lot of questions about satirizing acutely current events, and what to do when those events are on the verge of overtaking the satire.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
At that same ceremony, Saturday Night Live — which had veered heavily toward satirizing the Trump White House — enjoyed its best showing in years.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 3 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirize
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Among those targeted by the show were former Disney pop stars the Jonas Brothers, who were depicted in a 2009 episode as being attacked by Mickey Mouse amid a plot point that also lampooned their purity rings signaling virginity.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
2 July 2025
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The special may have felt like a punctuation mark on the season, but there were still eight more episodes and a barrage of absurdities to lampoon courtesy of the new administration.—
Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2025
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Reno 911! is a mockumentary comedy series that parodies law enforcement and premiered on Comedy Central in 2003.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
7 July 2025
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Fun factoid: Don Adams as Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) talking on the shoe phone has been parodied by many comedians over the years.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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And of course, that following Sunday, Oliver did indeed mock his corporate bosses for the move.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
8 July 2025
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Many wanted Tiger to comment, but others chose to mock Williams.—
Devlina Sarkar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 July 2025
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This rapid back-and-forth process mimics Kolb’s learning cycle and keeps your curiosity alive by making exploration dynamic and hands-on.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes.com,
9 July 2025
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The blouse features a hint of a collar, soon-to-be-trending frog enclosures, and slits on the sleeves that mimic the trousers.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Glamour,
9 July 2025
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His celebration imitated him sitting down playing a video game – a tribute to his former Portugal teammate Diogo Jota who died in a car crash last week.—
Ben Morse,
CNN Money,
10 July 2025
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And beyond device checks, smart verification systems can also monitor behavioral signals—like typing speed, location, or login habits—to spot anomalies that a cloned voice can’t imitate.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
10 July 2025
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Friday's planning commission meeting drew hundreds of spectators to City Hall, many of whom derided the developers' presentations and applauded when local residents spoke against the development.—
Sydney Franklin,
The Enquirer,
3 July 2025
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These critics deride the university system as being obsolete and ill-matched to the needs of our modern society.—
Adia Harvey Wingfield,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
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The branding flip-flop was ridiculed online — which WBD’s social team tried to get ahead of by sending out a flurry of self-deprecating memes poking fun at the name switcheroo.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
9 July 2025
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Gastineau, 68, says he has been ridiculed on social media over how he is portrayed.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
6 July 2025
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Of course, his privilege was intolerable to some, and he was caricatured in the press.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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That physicality comes in the form of striking, exaggerated, and caricatured animation straight out of the golden age of Chuck Jones and Tex Avery cartoons.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
11 June 2025
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“Satirize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirize. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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