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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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2
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
Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026
The cartoon character from nearly 100 years ago dreams of a day off from being a celebrity in this show that ran briefly on Broadway in 2025.
—Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 3 Feb. 2026
Saturday morning cartoons were fortified with frozen orange juice concentrate that came in a tube and required thawing the night before.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 2 Feb. 2026
The popular cartoon has been delivering heartfelt humor for almost three decades.
—Liz Regalia, Parents, 31 Jan. 2026
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Some companies deliberately design robots with cartoon-like or stylised appearances to avoid human comparison, while others emphasise clearly mechanical forms suited to industrial work.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Feb. 2026
The cartoon character from nearly 100 years ago dreams of a day off from being a celebrity in this show that ran briefly on Broadway in 2025.
—Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 3 Feb. 2026
Saturday morning cartoons were fortified with frozen orange juice concentrate that came in a tube and required thawing the night before.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 2 Feb. 2026
The popular cartoon has been delivering heartfelt humor for almost three decades.
—Liz Regalia, Parents, 31 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cartoon
Noun
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In an instant, our shaky courtroom sketch of Pearl the flighty young mother, Pearl the drunk, gets burned up and eclipsed by Pearl the mystic.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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The firm uses sketches, renderings, and 3D-modeling software to visualize and perfect every aspect of the design and to ensure smooth communication with architects, contractors, and artisans.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
10 Feb. 2026
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Cut each strip of pre-cooked bacon in half, and wrap it around each date, securing it with a toothpick.—
Jill Schildhouse,
Southern Living,
5 Feb. 2026
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After the Tuffah strike, Israeli fire continued across the strip, said hospital officials.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
4 Feb. 2026
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Humphrey, determined to recreate the video as accurately as possible, worked with Southwest to film her parody on a real plane with the same flight attendant from the first video.—
Kate Perez,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
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The governor’s willingness to mock the president through aggressive social-media parody elevated him to de facto resistance leader.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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These changes have been caricatured as authoritarian and corrupt.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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For years now, Europe has been caricatured as too divided to act, too lethargic to decide, too comfortable to think strategically.—
Fareed Zakaria,
Washington Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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By 2 payouts and previous drawings here.—
USA Today staff,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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These sheets of paper were then handed over to programmers who inputted the numerical values to make the pencil drawings come alive on-screen.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 Feb. 2026
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The cast includes Black Ops star Hammed Animashaun, Emma Sidi, who played Rose Matafeo’s flatmate in Starstruck, and Al Nash, a viral comic who satirizes social media tropes.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
6 Feb. 2026
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Since each comic scheduled for the night was allocated 10 minutes, Montoya decided to bump a performer and split the four drop-ins into five minutes each — two early on, and the last two at the end of the night.—
Anthony Solorzano,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Talk about the weather, add some jokes in there about some of the guys on the team and just stuff like that.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
5 Feb. 2026
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The event, held at the Montana Hotel in Pétion-Ville, was the butt of jokes on social media amid questions over the group’s authority to act.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2026
Verb
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It's pictured here on April 17, 2025.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
10 Feb. 2026
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His profile, which pictured him and Li in a park, smiling, claimed that the couple, married for more than thirty years, didn’t have any children.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Cartoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cartoon. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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