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Recent Examples of satirize
Political sensitivities come into play with a largely liberal cast that is expected to satirize both sides of the aisle.
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Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Drawn with a spidery expressionistic line and featuring a cast of characters including the neurotic Bernard, brutish Huey and the graceful Dancer, the strip satirized social and political issues and gave voice to liberal humanist views during the culturally conservative 1950s.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
The first season focused on the era of The Music Man, Carousel, and Brigadoon, but the second has shifted to the ’70s and ’80s to satirize Chicago, Cabaret, Hair, and Sweeney Todd.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
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The author of The Late Americans on ecstatic first drafts, satirizing the MFA, and characters who stake their lives on art.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
Drawn with a spidery expressionistic line and featuring a cast of characters including the neurotic Bernard, brutish Huey and the graceful Dancer, the strip satirized social and political issues and gave voice to liberal humanist views during the culturally conservative 1950s.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
The first season focused on the era of The Music Man, Carousel, and Brigadoon, but the second has shifted to the ’70s and ’80s to satirize Chicago, Cabaret, Hair, and Sweeney Todd.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Interview ‘Writing From the Whole of Life’: An Interview with Brandon Taylor
Colin Barrett
The author of The Late Americans on ecstatic first drafts, satirizing the MFA, and characters who stake their lives on art.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirize
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Every time the film comes close to lampooning Olmo and Miguel’s bumbling attempts to fit in, Eimbcke implicitly asks for our empathy by forcing us to recall how the things that were monumentally important to us at 14 now seem lame in hindsight.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
16 Feb. 2025
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Since the November election, those who lampooned Harris and former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. have found less demand for their services.—
Sopan Deb,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2025
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The show parodies the life of Jeanie Buss, president of the Los Angeles Lakers.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2025
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Cold Open This week’s Cold Open parodied the Trump-Zelenskyy press conference from earlier in the week.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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Musk has mocked Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, repeatedly since Russia invaded its neighbor in February 2022.—
Lily Hay Newman,
WIRED,
11 Mar. 2025
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The Vice President’s face has been subject to mock meme edits for several months, as political commentators used editing tools to exaggerate his features and create child-like caricatures.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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Among the innovations was Modern Meadow, a U.S.-based company founded in 2011 in Nutley, N.J., that has developed a material combining a soy protein structure and a nylon matrix to mimic closely the natural properties of collagen found in leather.—
Cristina Manfredi,
WWD,
11 Mar. 2025
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In trials, pills that mimic the genetic variation that helps Amish live longer has done the same thing for mice.—
Charlie De Mar,
CBS News,
7 Mar. 2025
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Munn shared that the motion is a fidget of Mulaney's that Malcolm has learned to imitate.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
12 Mar. 2025
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Younger narwhals also tended to imitate the behavior of older ones, indicating that social learning could influence how narwhals use their tusks, according to the study.—
Julianna Bragg,
CNN,
8 Mar. 2025
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But rather than embodying an untouchable royal, Meghan’s embraced the 1% lifestyle the entire streaming-TV industry gleefully derides.—
Raven Smith,
Vogue,
5 Mar. 2025
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The case was written up in the Mexican media with indignation (primarily highlighting the work’s political incorrectness), and countless local outlets derided Gallardo with xenophobic condescension.—
Fabiola Iza,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2025
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And gone are the drugs and alcohol which she has also been ridiculed for in the past, despite speaking candidly about her journey to sobriety 2023 was also the year that Doechii toured with Doja Cat and won the Rising Star award at Billboard’s annual Women in Music event.—
Carly Lewis-Oduntan,
refinery29.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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Similar videos were posted on the lawmakers’ X or Instagram accounts on Tuesday and eventually caught the attention of right-leaning voices, who ridiculed the Democrats for the campaign messaging.—
Miranda Nazzaro,
The Hill,
4 Mar. 2025
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For example, Obama has caricatured critics of his Syria policy as either uninformed or proponents of a military campaign on the scale of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.—
Kori Schake,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Dec. 2016
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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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“Satirize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirize. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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