burlesquing

present participle of burlesque

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for burlesquing
Verb
  • The brand announced the drop on Instagram with a campaign video parodying 1970s game shows.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Meta/Facebook has rolled out engaging bots, parodying famous personas such as Jane Austen; Snapchat has offered a chatbot to individual users.
    John Wihbey, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • How does this help democracy, imitating what Texas is doing?
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In an instance of art imitating life, the film's soundtrack also achieved great success as the highest-debuting soundtrack of 2025 on the Billboard 200.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Katherine del Rio took to social media to post, then delete, a couple of Instagram Stories mocking Leah Lewis following the incident on the set of the CBS drama.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • It has also been used as a derogatory term, mocking immigrant culture in Lima during the mass migrations of Indigenous Andean people to Lima in the 20th century.
    NPR, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In doing so, Berchtold was able to spend increasing time with Jan, even giving her a job at his furniture store.
    Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In borrowing from a patchwork of references, and steeping them in a brew both sacred and profane, D’Angelo was doing more than homage.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2025
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“Burlesquing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/burlesquing. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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