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lampooned

verb

past tense of lampoon

as in satirized

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Maury Povich is looking back on being parodied by Jim Carrey on In Living Color.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026
As for her hair, Electra’s waist-length tresses were streaked with red dye—a clever ode to the bloody slasher films parodied in the Scary Movie franchise.

— Hannah Malach, InStyle, 15 July 2026

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Instead of treating her and Povich’s pregnancy struggles with care, the pair were widely mocked in the media and on late-night shows, including on In Living Color, which had premiered on Fox in 1990.

— Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026
Fans rightfully mocked the dancing cars mounted on robot arms that played during an inexplicable diversion on Universal Studios Hollywood’s Studio Tour.

— Robert Niles, Oc Register, 21 July 2026

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Even the president’s jokes about his bad jokes fell flat, and he was widely ridiculed for the comedy routine afterward.

— Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 25 July 2026
Dundon’s move was widely criticized — and ridiculed — after the Hurricanes on Thursday posted a picture of the engravings on social media.

— Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026

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When fraudsters adopt voice cloning, banks respond with checks that test for the subtle traces cloning leaves behind, and when defenders turn to the study of behavior, criminals begin to rehearse how ordinary conduct can be imitated.

— Dennis-Kenji Kipker, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
But according to some luxury brands, authenticity is something that is often imitated but never replicated.

— James Sneed, NPR, 10 July 2026

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It had been spoofed so precisely that the messages accompanying the call arrived in the same gray bubbles, with the same Apple logo, that only real Apple support uses in iMessage.

— Ryan Pettit, Time, 7 July 2026
The announcement featured a trailer that spoofed the Harry Potter movies, with Cenat writing letters to aspiring streamers who had been accepted to the school.

— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026

Definition of spoofed

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