1
as in sketch
a picture using lines to represent the chief features of an object or scene
a political cartoon mocking the state legislature
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as in strip
a series of drawings that tell a story or part of a story
reading the cartoons in the Sunday newspaper
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as in parody
a poor, insincere, or insulting imitation of something
in this biopic the life of a complex man is reduced to a cartoon
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Recent Examples of cartoon
Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2025
His father, Harvey Eisenberg, was an animator and comic book artist who worked on Tom & Jerry, Foxy Fagan and Yogi Bear cartoons alongside William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at MGM and later at their own company.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
Maybe instead of rats the cartoon should show sitting ducks.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
Elsewhere in the interview, Carl Jones detailed why the beloved cartoon disappeared seemingly when Black America needed it most in June 2014.
—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 13 Feb. 2025
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Some were being designed to look like kid-friendly foods, resembling cans of grape soda, or decorated with cartoons, like unicorns eating pancakes.
—Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2025
His father, Harvey Eisenberg, was an animator and comic book artist who worked on Tom & Jerry, Foxy Fagan and Yogi Bear cartoons alongside William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at MGM and later at their own company.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
Maybe instead of rats the cartoon should show sitting ducks.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025
Elsewhere in the interview, Carl Jones detailed why the beloved cartoon disappeared seemingly when Black America needed it most in June 2014.
—Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cartoon
Noun
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The Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary special was filled with nostalgia and sketches featuring a plethora of celebrities, including Meryl Streep, Eddie Murphy, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone and more.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
17 Feb. 2025
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With so many movie and TV stars being thrown into a sketch cold, too many opening lines were flubbed, and a handful of punchlines were fumbled.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2025
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Crafted from bouncy layers of colorful organza strips that can be folded flat, these numbers are expected to further express the sense of happiness Fang was looking to imbue in the lineup.—
Sandra Salibian,
WWD,
25 Feb. 2025
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The Novi developments brought over 300 apartments to the strip as part of the city’s downtown revitalization.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Feb. 2025
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The user’s viral review sparked parodies across the app with user @Nathanwituk poking fun at the original poster in a Feb. 23 video.—
Paloma Chavez,
Sacramento Bee,
24 Feb. 2025
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Additionally, disco offered a framework for instrumentalists to play around with, as well as characteristics that cannot be boiled down to logic: there can also be affective reasons, regardless of whether the intent is irony, camp, parody, or the expression of genuine sentiment.—
Angelica Frey,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Feb. 2025
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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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The first season wasn’t exactly kind and gentle, but there was a baroque, caricatured nature to the games that often made their excesses palatable.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
26 Dec. 2024
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Some of the courses that will see a rate increase in the 2025-26 school year include various art classes such as Advanced Placement drawing as well as Play Production, Photography, Accounting and Veterinary Science.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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Opportunity drawing tickets are available for a chance to win beautiful earrings designed by John Matty Co. or a gift card to Isola Boutique, according to a news release.—
Ut Community Press,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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The comic is currently touring nationwide on his Can’t Stop Talking Tour and is set to release a cookbook, Your Pasta Sucks, in April.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
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The limited-edition 56-page comic reflects themes found in her album and was drawn by Japanese illustrator and animator Minomiyabi.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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Sunday night's show packed five decades of memories, references, music, and jokes into a three-hour program that was high on emotion, heart, and laughs.—
Melissa Locker,
TIME,
17 Feb. 2025
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There’s lots of Easter eggs of all sorts, with dialogue, with jokes, with clothes.—
Mark Peikert,
IndieWire,
17 Feb. 2025
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Elon Musk speaks next to President Donald Trump, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., Feb. 11, 2025.—
Annie Nova,
CNBC,
12 Feb. 2025
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The whole world pictures the Lakers rollin’ right now.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Cartoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cartoon. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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