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Recent Examples of satirize
Other humorists walked the line between supporting and satirizing the regime in different ways.
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 3 Jan. 2025
One approach, adopted by Lynda Benglis, Urs Fischer, and Christopher Wool, involves digitally capturing a chance form—a squeeze of clay, a snarl of wire—then enlarging that scan to monumental proportions, both dramatizing and satirizing the superpowers that artists now have at their disposal.
—Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
The comedy satirizes a stranger-than-fiction psychic government investigation that actually happened in the 1990s.
—Gregg Goldstein, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
State of play: The alien invasion film directed by Trent Harris satirizes Utah's culture and religious history.
—Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
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Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 3 Jan. 2025
One approach, adopted by Lynda Benglis, Urs Fischer, and Christopher Wool, involves digitally capturing a chance form—a squeeze of clay, a snarl of wire—then enlarging that scan to monumental proportions, both dramatizing and satirizing the superpowers that artists now have at their disposal.
—Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
The comedy satirizes a stranger-than-fiction psychic government investigation that actually happened in the 1990s.
—Gregg Goldstein, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
State of play: The alien invasion film directed by Trent Harris satirizes Utah's culture and religious history.
—Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirize
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Around New Year’s, a Post cartoon lampooning Bezos for sucking up to the president-elect was killed.—
Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Jan. 2025
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Dhillon, who attended a Trump fundraiser held by Sacks over the summer, has criticized Ivy League universities for failing to protect Jewish students, lampooned mask mandates, and filed lawsuits over stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
23 Dec. 2024
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The images were widely parodied, but Leo stood her ground.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
8 Feb. 2025
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The scene and the song were later parodied in a 2007 Saturday Night Live digital short by the Lonely Island, helping broaden its reach and turning the song into a meme.—
Xander Zellner,
Billboard,
21 Jan. 2025
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On a later episode of SNL, Madonna mocked O’Connor by ripping up a photo of then-tabloid fixture Joey Buttafuoco.—
Shannon Carlin,
TIME,
15 Feb. 2025
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Most of your editorials, John Brummett, Rex Nelson, and John Deering, are blatant Trump haters, and their smug, condescending echo-chamber mindsets are constantly denigrating, mocking, and disrespecting at least 64 percent of your potential readers.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
15 Feb. 2025
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The edges of the cutout were left raw, mimicking the idea that the jacket had been unintentionally cut as opposed to being designed that way.—
Mikelle Street,
WWD,
14 Feb. 2025
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Mars exploration may take a profound toll on the psyche: the crew slept in tiny, windowless rooms, had minimal interaction with outsiders, and often spent several hours a day outside in the cold, carrying forty-pound packs to mimic scientific excursions.—
Dhruv Khullar,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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For example, a light lavender lining peeks out from underneath the tool of the Rapunzel dress, which can be paired with a long, dramatic boa to imitate her lustrous mane.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
People.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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Between the lines: The BRT experience aims to imitate the experience of a subway or train.—
Andrew King,
Axios,
10 Feb. 2025
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Wallace has been booed during driver introductions at nearly every racetrack since fans returned after the pandemic and has been derided on social media.—
Jeff Gluck,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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Republicans have derided the efforts as an abuse of executive authority, and some have even argued for clawbacks of some of that relief -- though that's considered unlikely.—
Cheyenne Haslett,
ABC News,
12 Feb. 2025
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While the former third baseman has strong support in his clubhouse, he’s been ridiculed by fans throughout his time with the Bombers despite taking the team to the playoffs in all but one season, 2023.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
14 Feb. 2025
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As a 15-year-old when the murders happened, she was ridiculed and bullied by her classmates at Charlotte High.—
Fernando Cervantes Jr.,
USA TODAY,
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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“Satirize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirize. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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