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Recent Examples of satirize
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.
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Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
The comedy satirizes a stranger-than-fiction psychic government investigation that actually happened in the 1990s.
—Gregg Goldstein, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
State of play: The alien invasion film directed by Trent Harris satirizes Utah's culture and religious history.
—Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
The joke conspiracy is meant to satirize the spread of misinformation by proliferating the false idea that the U.S. government wiped out birds and replaced the animals with drones to spy on Americans.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
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Glenn Adamson, ARTnews.com, 16 Dec. 2024
The comedy satirizes a stranger-than-fiction psychic government investigation that actually happened in the 1990s.
—Gregg Goldstein, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
State of play: The alien invasion film directed by Trent Harris satirizes Utah's culture and religious history.
—Kim Bojórquez, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
The joke conspiracy is meant to satirize the spread of misinformation by proliferating the false idea that the U.S. government wiped out birds and replaced the animals with drones to spy on Americans.
—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirize
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Around New Year’s, a Post cartoon lampooning Bezos for sucking up to the president-elect was killed.—
Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Jan. 2025
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Dhillon, who attended a Trump fundraiser held by Sacks over the summer, has criticized Ivy League universities for failing to protect Jewish students, lampooned mask mandates, and filed lawsuits over stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic.—
Bloomberg,
The Mercury News,
23 Dec. 2024
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While tongue in cheek, the skit actually parodied the current move of corporate America toward accepting, if not embracing, the return of Donald J. Trump as president.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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The actor was in the studio to chat about his Broadway production All In: Comedy About Love when he was treated to an unexpected '90s throwback clip of him and Amy Adams in a TV commercial parodying the hit musical Grease.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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They were also nominated for worst screen combo, another blow for the movie that Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser ruthlessly mocked in her monologue earlier this month.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA TODAY,
22 Jan. 2025
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Shelton specifically referenced the incident where Tony Jones of Channel 9 mocked Novak Djokovic and his fans on air, causing Djokovic to skip a post-match interview with Jim Courier.—
Adam Zagoria,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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In my work, there’s always repetition of a single or multiple elements which mimic the process of growth.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
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Any trippy-looking mushroom products available for sale at gas stations and head shops are likely unlawful and may contain synthetic compounds designed to mimic psilocybin’s effects.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
The Denver Post,
21 Jan. 2025
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But in non-biotech emerging industries, many billion-dollar entrepreneurs imitated the product but improved on the strategy.—
Dileep Rao,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia visits remains of his home lost in L.A. fire: 'Life imitating art' Garner indicated that her residence is still standing but that countless friends have lost their houses over the past week.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
11 Jan. 2025
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The two men were heralded by Democrats as patriots for speaking out and derided by Trump as insubordinate.—
Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Jan. 2025
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But lawmakers like Baker were still eager to see the dam completed and derided the decision as environmental overreach, seeing little reason to delay a major project for a seemingly minor fish.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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And if the Jaguars do not pull themselves out of the AFC South abyss, owner Shad Khan will be ridiculed for letting a guy with a skimpy resume have a huge say in picking the team’s next general manager.—
John Romano,
Orlando Sentinel,
25 Jan. 2025
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Through cute memes and witty jokes, both groups ridiculed the TikTok ban.—
Jianqing Chen,
The Conversation,
19 Jan. 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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