as in to lampoon
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Recent Examples of satirize
Thankfully, instead of wallowing in unrequited love, the story satirizes academia and the obsession of Western literature and philosophy with hell in a really fun way.
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Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2025
But even before that, a dizzying gallery of characters pop in to satirize period drama tropes or — like a fictional J.R.R. Tolkien composing Orkish — British culture at large.
—Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2025
During the subsequent century, filmmakers returned to this reflexive mode of cinema for a variety of reasons, either to examine their artistic process, explore formal innovations, expose some horrible secret, or, perhaps most often, satirize the ivory-tower industry itself.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
Producers have moved the show to an every-other-week schedule to more fully satirize current events.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Dogecoin, for comparison, was introduced in 2013 by software engineers lampooning what seemed like outlandish Bitcoin speculation at the time.—
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After lampooning Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Vice President JD Vance and President Donald Trump (again after Episode 1) in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement-skewering second episode Got a Nut on Aug. 6, South Park didn’t released a new episode last week.—
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The scene came in a fictional segment parodying Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead in which Maggie defends her architectural talents after her daycare teacher punishes her for making beautiful structures from building blocks.—
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Grande, who has been featured as a musical guest twice (once as part of her double-duty in 2016), sang, parodied and disappeared into characters all through the night, flexing her skillset as a host who’s game to try on costumes no matter how ridiculous, impressions no matter how far-fetched.—
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During Glaser's interview with Stern, the shock jock praised her for mocking CBS News despite the Golden Globes airing on CBS.—
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The fan appeared to be mocking Parker for accepting the prestigious Carol Burnett Award from the Golden Globe Awards organization last week.—
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The exercises mimicked the demands of difficult backcountry missions.—
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The company is currently redesigning its website to mimic the ease of in-store shopping.—
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James said while walking through the venue, imitating her excitement.—
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When anchors John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois took over CBS Evening News last year, part of the network’s strategy was to imitate a local news format, with a genial cast of personalities reporting from the field.—
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The Deserving could change that, but the readers who need it most are those who would deride Vartkessian as the bloodiest of bleeding hearts.—
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This came after her previous comments deriding many accusers in the wake of the #MeToo movement.—
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Now, with so much more football and the overpowering nature of the internet providing both a platform for promotion but also ridicule, the role of the commentator is very different.—
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Back in their teenage years, Lexi’s older sister Andrea is depicted as a mean girl who ridicules Catherine mercilessly.—
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During Newby’s tenure as chief justice, a cartoon has hung in the Supreme Court depicting him as Superman, surrounded by a coterie of conservative appellate justices caricatured as other members of DC Comics’ Justice League.—
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Israel’s fiercest advocates in the United States may caricature the end of exceptional treatment as U.S. abandonment of Israel and a reward for the perpetrators of October 7.—
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“Satirize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirize. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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