as in to lampoon
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Recent Examples of satirize
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.
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Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
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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
Other humorists walked the line between supporting and satirizing the regime in different ways.
—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
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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
Other humorists walked the line between supporting and satirizing the regime in different ways.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirize
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Victor, who uses they/she pronouns, found success in the late 2010s via viral videos on Twitter, often lampooning trending news stories like the creation of a Straight Pride parade in Boston.—
Mia Galuppo,
The Hollywood Reporter,
24 Jan. 2025
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America First Legal, which touts itself as a counter to the American Civil Liberties Union, recently issued letters to police leaders in Los Angeles and San Diego lampooning their reluctance to aid immigration agents.—
Rick Hurd,
The Mercury News,
20 Jan. 2025
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Compared to 2005, when Green said the writers struggled to source toys or prove to their lawyers that something existed to parody, the rise of YouTube and social media means nothing stays niche anymore.—
Rafael Motamayor,
IndieWire,
20 Feb. 2025
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The staple segment offers a satirical take on the news and often parodies current events with a sense of sarcasm and deadpan humor that fans have come to know and love.—
Liza Esquibias,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Cuba’s foreign minister mocked NED on social media.—
Peter Roskam,
National Review,
26 Feb. 2025
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Musk also mocked people who criticized the order on X, noting that workers could respond by asking an AI chatbot — such as Grok, owned by X — to create a list of accomplished tasks.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them,
25 Feb. 2025
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Cybercriminals have adopted machine learning and AI to revolutionize their tactics, employing tools that automate reconnaissance, craft hyper-realistic phishing emails and mimic trusted voices or identities.—
Jeremy Dodson,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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Cows, sheep, and other livestock are allowed to roam freely in pastures that mimic natural environments.5 This is believed to be healthier for the animals and produce more nutrient-dense meat and milk.—
Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, RDN, LD,
Health,
24 Feb. 2025
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Gone were the regal ceremony and traditionalism, replaced by a humility intended to imitate Christ’s poverty.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
28 Feb. 2025
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Xi has no reason to imitate Putin’s reckless break with Europe and the United States.—
Michael Kimmage,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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His record during his first term was highly ambiguous: Trump damaged and derided the American order but also protected it from its excesses and its enemies.—
HAL BRANDS,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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While some in the international community have derided Trump’s proposal for Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, Macron sees it as a way to keep Trump, and by extension the U.S., invested in defending Ukraine, if only for its natural resources.—
Brian Bennett,
TIME,
25 Feb. 2025
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Whereas you might be ridiculed for being glued to your phone at an NBA game, here the competition is an entirely dual-screen experience.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
22 Feb. 2025
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In each instance, Hartman and Hooks play the Trumps as apathetic tyrants of capitalistic materialism, using both as stand-ins to ridicule the mindless excess of the period.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
15 Feb. 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 12 Mar. 2025.
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