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Recent Examples of satirize
One of American Idiot’s strengths was its ability to capture and satirize Bush-era politics.
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Brady Gerber, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
Hosted by Roy Wood Jr. and featuring comedians Michael Ian Black and Amber Ruffin as regular panelists alongside two guests per episode, the program satirizes and reflects on the week’s news.
—Scott Bryan, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2024
Along the way, the show brutally satirizes film and TV tropes and reveals Rick to be perhaps the most reprehensible antihero on television.
—Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2024
The special, which marked the show’s 328th episode, satirized the craze around the drug, America’s labyrinthine health care system and the body positivity movement, to name a few targets.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
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Brady Gerber, Vulture, 19 Jan. 2024
Hosted by Roy Wood Jr. and featuring comedians Michael Ian Black and Amber Ruffin as regular panelists alongside two guests per episode, the program satirizes and reflects on the week’s news.
—Scott Bryan, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2024
Along the way, the show brutally satirizes film and TV tropes and reveals Rick to be perhaps the most reprehensible antihero on television.
—Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2024
The special, which marked the show’s 328th episode, satirized the craze around the drug, America’s labyrinthine health care system and the body positivity movement, to name a few targets.
—Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirize
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One of its first big accessory hits, in 2019, was the Le Chiquito mini bag—a purse scarcely the size of a wallet that was both admired and lampooned.Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Oct. 2024
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Two paintings, for example, lampoon the rabbinic authorities who enforce religious law.Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
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One, which was later parodied in a famous Chappelle’s Show skit, required the artists to walk more than five miles to fetch him cheesecake from a Brooklyn restaurant.Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024
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The sketch then shifted to the faux-emotional, parodying the candidates’ inclination to agree with each other during the debate.Michaela Zee, Variety, 6 Oct. 2024
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Jimmy Kimmel used his final show before the election to make an impassioned plea to get rid of Donald Trump, while others mocked the Republican candidate’s recent meltdown over a microphone during one his rallies.Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
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Russia has sent two prototypes of its latest fighter jet in service, the stealth Su-57, to China for an airshow, where they were reportedly mocked for their poor workmanship and conditions.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the new study, the team mimicked a sewer environment under extreme conditions in a lab and rapidly sped up the fatberg formation process over 30 days.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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These videos mimic content from U.S. government agencies and more than 50 news organizations, including the BBC, France 24, and Fox News.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Governed by Neptune, the planet of fantasy and film, Pisces is naturally drawn to iconic characters and cinematic flair, and Nyong’o’s choice proves that life really does imitate art.Valerie Mesa, People.com, 28 Oct. 2024
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Scammers will also often imitate someone in authority, such as a tax or debt collector.Adriana Morga, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
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Yet Mann urged his audiences to resist the temptation to deride humanity.George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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At minimum, the show serves as an hour to deride the maps, magic walls and needles that will inevitably rule the night.Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
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Young voters in both camps have seized on certain messages to ridicule or to emphasize certain values which have ranged from Tik Tock, Instagram reels of dance videos about eating cats and dogs to Trump depicted as the Messiah.Earl Carr, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The former president has repeatedly ridiculed the conservative cable news giant in the weeks leading up to Election Day.Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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Elegy thus belongs to an old and ignoble genre, one which caricatures the hillbilly for an audience’s titillation.Sarah Jones, Vulture, 15 July 2024
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As is human nature, the two sides caricature each other and try to demonize each other.Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024
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“Satirize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirize. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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