pasquinading

Definition of pasquinadingnext
present participle of pasquinade

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Verb
  • House Republicans rejected Kemp’s signature tax rebate plan that called for sending up to $500 checks to Georgia taxpayers.
    Adam Beam, AJC.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • At the center of it was Catherine, vividly sending up an entire genre of the show-business underbelly that no one ever referenced on polite middle-American network television.
    Merrill Markoe, Rolling Stone, 1 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Late-night hosts, including Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Meyers, have been mocking the documentary.
    Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Link was captured on Ring camera footage mocking and belittling Jimenez after shooting him, prosecutors say.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • This approach avoids measurement errors introduced by elastic components while still mimicking biological energy storage and return.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Each stimulus was paired with laser stimulation of a brain region called the amygdala, mimicking a dopamine hit.
    Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, previously said in a statement that accounts imitating other people go against their terms of service and are removed when flagged.
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Broncos fans have rallied around their backup quarterback, with thousands of fans changing their social media avatars to a picture of Stidham’s face, photoshopped with sunglasses and headphones, imitating a LeBron James meme.
    Doug Kyed, Boston Herald, 25 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Investigators determined the text had come through a voice over IP service capable of spoofing phone numbers.
    Michael Ruiz , Matt Finn, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Scammers are spoofing numbers to call customers and setting up fake websites that appear in Google searches.
    Joshua Sidorowicz, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • In response, track athlete Alysia Montaño crafted a video in conjunction with the New York Times, parodying Nike’s sponsor’s ad.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026
  • These are the exact type of tried-and-true New Yorkers and New York hip-hop heads the Bodega Boys blew up by parodying with their frequently unhinged back-and-forth.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 6 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Trump was explicit about his reasons for sabotaging the monumental project by October, deriding it as a favorite of New York Democrat and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Throughout the conflict, The Free Press wrote from an unambiguously pro-Israeli point of view, deriding both pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses and the coverage of the war in mainstream outlets, including this magazine.
    Clare Malone, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • After outlining that corrupt deal, Du Bois dissects how scholarship sympathetic to the northern interests then rewrote Reconstruction’s history, turning the period into a fable of failure while caricaturing Black political leadership and widespread democratic participation.
    Zephyr Teachout, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Pasquinading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasquinading. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.

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