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as in sketch
a picture using lines to represent the chief features of an object or scene
a political cartoon mocking the state legislature
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2
as in strip
a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story
reading the cartoons in the Sunday newspaper
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as in parody
a poor, insincere, or insulting imitation of something
in this biopic the life of a complex man is reduced to a cartoon
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Recent Examples of cartoon
Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
To Compete With China | Opinion The wealthy GOP businessman Marc Hanna was often portrayed in cartoons as the master puppeteer behind the rise and short career of President William McKinley.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
In the best cartoons, the words and the drawings are conjoined.
—Roz Chast, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
John Erwin, the voice behind such iconic animated and animal TV characters as He-Man, Morris The Cat, the snobby Reggie of the Archie cartoons and many other Saturday morning favorites of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, died last month of natural causes at his home in Camarillo, California.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025
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Sam had a sudden flash of some decades old cartoon, an anthropomorphized rabbit or skunk with its jaw dropped, a foghorn like awooga accompanying the lolling of its cartoonishly long tongue.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2025
To Compete With China | Opinion The wealthy GOP businessman Marc Hanna was often portrayed in cartoons as the master puppeteer behind the rise and short career of President William McKinley.
—Justin Gest, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
In the best cartoons, the words and the drawings are conjoined.
—Roz Chast, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
John Erwin, the voice behind such iconic animated and animal TV characters as He-Man, Morris The Cat, the snobby Reggie of the Archie cartoons and many other Saturday morning favorites of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, died last month of natural causes at his home in Camarillo, California.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cartoon
Noun
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On Sunday, February 16, the late-night comedy show revived the Black Jeopardy sketch with a twist — Eddie Murphy impersonated Tracy Morgan while the actual Morgan stood beside him.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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The special event marks the culmination of a three-day celebration honoring the legacy of the long-running sketch show.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Ueda was wondering what to do with the long narrow strip of land he was left with, and decided that a small solar farm could be profitable.—
Hannah Kirshner,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2025
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Officers called for assistance from the California Highway Patrol (CHP), who used spike strips to deflate the vehicle's tires.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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The brand will collaborate with the long-running NBC sketch comedy show on a parody commercial spotlighting the benefits of the new hair care line.—
WWD Staff,
WWD,
13 Feb. 2025
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Dratch was the last in a group of five SNL alums to debut her Real Housewives tagline parody, spoofing the franchise's tradition of the housewives introducing themselves with a catty one-liner.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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The connection between Nafisi and Bahri is presented with complexity and without sentimentality, neither papering over political differences nor caricaturing Bahri as a generic revolutionary.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2025
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The first season wasn’t exactly kind and gentle, but there was a baroque, caricatured nature to the games that often made their excesses palatable.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
26 Dec. 2024
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The lottery player scored $100,000 during the Feb. 12 drawing, according to the Texas Lottery.—
Helena Wegner,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Feb. 2025
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The Art Institute offered a foretaste of the collection through two exhibitions — one focused on Neoclassical paintings, the other on French Revolution-era drawings — in the fall.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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Red-hot comic Nate Bargatze is in negotiations to star in Christmas in Paradise, a holiday family comedy from Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists‘ Scott Stuber that’s in the early stages of development.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2025
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The first Fantastic Four comic debuted in 1961, and the new movie will return the beloved superheroes to their '60s roots, offering up a period film full of retro flair.—
Rebecca Aizin,
People.com,
8 Feb. 2025
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While the bit was planned, some questioned whether she had been let in on the joke.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2025
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His angle: joke about the very specific and very absurd elements of cycling, snowboarding, and getting outdoors.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside Online,
17 Feb. 2025
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Elon Musk speaks next to President Donald Trump, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 11, 2025.—
Annie Nova,
CNBC,
12 Feb. 2025
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The whole world pictures the Lakers rollin’ right now.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Cartoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cartoon. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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