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The only squib marks left on anyone were on the almost 5,000 patrons who braved one of the most refreshingly moderate ocean breezes California has to offer to see maybe still the best homegrown group California has had to offer in any recent year.
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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Chris Willman,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for squib
Recent Examples of Synonyms for squib
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After this farce, the circuit made changes going into the 2024 race.
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The most staggering part of this farce is the math.
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Beneath its gleeful barrage of kink, karaoke, and absurdist comedy lies a sharp satire of exclusion, identity, and liberation within contemporary Queer culture.
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After the White House initially defended the post as satire, the video in question was deleted after a backlash including from some Republicans.
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The apocalyptic horror comedy Zombieland (2009) was a box office hit.
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The ceremony was officiated by friend of the couple Adam Sandler, whom Travis Kelce starred alongside in the 2025 comedy Happy Gilmore 2.
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The action, which is not bloody or at all deadly, has the fizzy charm and slapstick charge of prime Jackie Chan.
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The frenetic antics of Illumination‘s mascot army of yellow miscreants have always been indebted to vintage slapstick.
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Meanwhile, his simpler comedy skits attract hundreds of millions of views on Shorts.
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The tour included real history and mythology, then also quests, cabins based on godly parents and skits.
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For decades, investigators had little more than Barrett's body and a composite sketch of a suspect based on interviews with her friends.
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Founded in 2011 by actors Joivan Wade and Percelle Ascott, Wall of Entertainment will also release over 100 episodes of their programming spanning reality, comedy, game show, dating, cooking, sketch and drama on Tubi.
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The goofy sketch comedies and homemade spoofs that once filled his channel gradually disappeared, replaced by melancholy short films and bleak monologues.
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But given the current box office sensations of Obsession and Backrooms, Tiddes certainly wishes the timing had allowed for spoofs of those horror movies.
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“Squib.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squib. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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