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as in drawings
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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as in strips
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 parodies
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 cartoons
Literary Hub, 9 May 2026
The New Yorker started putting Target’s red bull’s-eye on its cartoons, a Target runway show was staged at New York’s Rockefeller Center, and a Target pop-up shop was installed on a ferry to the city.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 6 May 2026
Rewriting the script After decades of animating US cartoons, South Korean creatives are eager to tell their own stories.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
The Cartoon Network arrived in 1992, showing the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons Turner acquired.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2026
Our subscribers enjoy unlimited access to more than a hundred years’ worth of New Yorker articles, covers, cartoons, short stories, podcasts, and puzzles.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons is a woman wearing a shirt that reads DKNJ.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2026
But there’s Lamar, still going, like one of those cartoons, where a character’s driving nothing but himself and a steering wheel, exposed yet also free, daring to go too far to someplace new.
—New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
For many attendees, the convention is known to be an epicenter and safe space to celebrate anime and cartoons.
—Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
Hank Kennedy chronicles the Nazi war on cartoons.
—Literary Hub, 9 May 2026
The New Yorker started putting Target’s red bull’s-eye on its cartoons, a Target runway show was staged at New York’s Rockefeller Center, and a Target pop-up shop was installed on a ferry to the city.
—David Moin, Footwear News, 6 May 2026
Rewriting the script After decades of animating US cartoons, South Korean creatives are eager to tell their own stories.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
The Cartoon Network arrived in 1992, showing the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons Turner acquired.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 May 2026
Our subscribers enjoy unlimited access to more than a hundred years’ worth of New Yorker articles, covers, cartoons, short stories, podcasts, and puzzles.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons is a woman wearing a shirt that reads DKNJ.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2026
But there’s Lamar, still going, like one of those cartoons, where a character’s driving nothing but himself and a steering wheel, exposed yet also free, daring to go too far to someplace new.
—New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
For many attendees, the convention is known to be an epicenter and safe space to celebrate anime and cartoons.
—Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cartoons
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In this, all assemblies and elements are assembled in the design position – exactly as in the drawings, down to one thousandth of a millimeter.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
15 May 2026
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Children mailed their drawings.—
Jerry Brewer,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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Weatherproof outdoor power strips can be purchased for any outdoor jobs, and specialized industrial strips exist for high-voltage uses.—
Louise Parks,
Martha Stewart,
16 May 2026
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Tupi serves coffee drinks, beer and wine, as well as Brazilian-style tapas, such as heart of palm salad and chicken strips or brisket sliders with a Brazilian BBQ sauce.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
15 May 2026
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His most viral videos include skits about dueling Drake and Kendrick Lamar tracks and parodies amplifying more serious lyrical messages in popular party music.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
13 May 2026
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Broadway, top-heavy with musical parodies and attention-grabbing revivals, is having a strange season by all accounts.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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No photos, no sketches, no fitting details — absolutely nothing is allowed to leak.—
Allison DeGrushe,
StyleCaster,
14 May 2026
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Ironically, only Branwell’s room, papered with sketches and poems, looks like an artist’s refuge.—
Culture Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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Many had argued that the banner, which largely meditates on the violence of the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia, contained antisemitic caricatures.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
12 May 2026
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Watching the pair scheme in crisp shot-reverse-shot carries much of the film’s easy charm, like witnessing a pair of Al Hirschfeld caricatures suddenly brought to life.—
Ben Croll,
IndieWire,
12 May 2026
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Miss Manners pictures your guests, looking forward to a pleasant evening with you, being confronted with your suggestions.—
Judith Martin,
Sun Sentinel,
24 Feb. 2026
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After all, no one pictures a futuristic city cloaked in exhaust fumes.—
Alex Hewitt,
IEEE Spectrum,
6 Jan. 2026
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The design ethos translates to a warren of nook-and-cranny sitting rooms decorated in sage and slate, ox-blood leather, curiosities and ancestral portraits.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 May 2026
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The first room, the Studio, is a recreation of the photographer’s famous atelier on Rue Paul Fort in Paris, known as Studio Luce, where fashion pictures, still-life imagery, portraits coexist as a kaleidoscopic trip inside Roversi’s oeuvre and intimate workspace.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
15 May 2026
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Tom Brady, who was the victim of Netflix’s last celebrity roast in 2024, made a surprise appearance at Kevin Hart’s roast Sunday to launch a few jokes at the comedian before the night got underway.—
Payton Turkeltaub,
Variety,
11 May 2026
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Insults were par for the course at The Roast of Kevin Hart, but some jokes had more acid than others.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
11 May 2026
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“Cartoons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cartoons. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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