as in to lampoon
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Recent Examples of satirize
The movie — which cost just $1 million to make — grossed more than $50 million and remains one of the most classic teen movies of all time, often referenced and satirized by other movies and shows.
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Victoria Edel, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
Only that genteel veneer soon gives way to a more scathing national x-ray, satirizing post-Brexit malaise alongside broader issues of immigration and national identity.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025
The Coen brothers took their inspiration from the films of Preston Sturgess and Frank Capra, among others, but the intent was never to satirize or parody those films.
—Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2024
Political sensitivities come into play with a largely liberal cast that is expected to satirize both sides of the aisle.
—Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
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Victoria Edel, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
Only that genteel veneer soon gives way to a more scathing national x-ray, satirizing post-Brexit malaise alongside broader issues of immigration and national identity.
—Ben Croll, Variety, 30 Jan. 2025
The Coen brothers took their inspiration from the films of Preston Sturgess and Frank Capra, among others, but the intent was never to satirize or parody those films.
—Ars Technica, 31 Dec. 2024
Political sensitivities come into play with a largely liberal cast that is expected to satirize both sides of the aisle.
—Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirize
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To be lampooned in Spy was, if not at all an honor, something like a backward, upside-down mark of distinction.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
15 Mar. 2025
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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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On platforms such as TikTok and YouTube, creators build personal brands off parodying celebrities and constructing elaborate takedowns of what’s in the mainstream.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
2 Mar. 2025
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In response, several unofficial accounts that parodied the National Park Service sprung up, including the Alt National Park Service.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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Now mock drafts expect the Seahawks will try to improve their offensive line or add another wide receiver for Darnold.—
Jim Sergent,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2025
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And my wife would probably mock me for not getting meat, or something else.—
Thomas Wheatley,
Axios,
31 Mar. 2025
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However, for his role as legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow, Clooney picked up a bottle of hair dye to mimic the broadcaster’s look more accurately.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
4 Apr. 2025
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Building artificial skin with room to grow The researchers initially sought to create a skin imitation that could accurately mimic the three layers in human skin: the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
3 Apr. 2025
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It’s been imitated to death by lesser films in the years that followed, but this first appearance still has a disarming spark.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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So Far View List Life, however, will not be imitating art for Bassett.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
17 Mar. 2025
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The term monstrous from the show’s title, for example, was applied by 18th-century critics who derided chinoiserie as unnatural.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
31 Mar. 2025
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Those three countries, once derided as the ‘big three’ after trying to hijack the sport a decade ago, take in 87 per cent of bilateral international cricket revenues.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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He was often ridiculed by contemporaries, including renowned adherents of the Nation of Islam such as Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, as being too actively focused on integration and too passively focused on Black empowerment, critiques of the Black political establishment that persist today.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
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In this new dispensation where might makes right, any appeal to moral considerations in the practice of American foreign policy is ridiculed as a deficiency of the weak while the amoral exercise of power is venerated as a virtue of the strong.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
26 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 8 Apr. 2025.
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