as in satires
a creative work that uses sharp humor to point up the foolishness of a person, institution, or human nature in general
this classic musical is a lampoon of the movie business at the time when sound was introduced
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More than a hundred years before the French Revolution, his riotous, scathing satires dared to speak truth to some of the most absolute power in the world.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
17 Dec. 2025 -
Christopher Guest really took up the mantle of putting real emotional elements in these satires — look at A Mighty Wind.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
16 Dec. 2025
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Way better than dusty game show and dinner party spoofs.—
Andy Hoglund,
Entertainment Weekly,
18 Jan. 2026
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What’s Upstairs at the Downstairs is always a patchwork of mild satire, blatant spoofs, witty music, local jokes.—
Laird Borrelli-Persson,
Vogue,
21 Dec. 2025
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Ben Hania’s film before that, 2020’s Oscar-nominated The Man Who Sold His Skin, parodies the art world’s fetishization of refugees.—
Alexander Durie,
Time,
3 Mar. 2026
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Newsom has been trying to raise his national profile, adopting a combative style that parodies Trump’s social media strategy with similar all-caps posts, memes and merchandise.—
Adriana Gomez Licon,
Fortune,
26 Oct. 2025
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Back in their teenage years, Lexi’s older sister Andrea is depicted as a mean girl who ridicules Catherine mercilessly.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
9 Jan. 2026
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Then there’s the loud kind, where the audience openly ridicules you.—
Adrienne LaFrance,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
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Today, reality mocks the dream.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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The worst thing Isabella does to Cathy is murder the doll version of her after Cathy mocks her feelings for Heathcliff.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
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The influential author derides secularism and the modern world.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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Patagonia’s proprietary synthetic fill imitates down’s structure by spinning air-trapping microfilaments around a central fiber and requires fewer stabilizing seams and baffles than down.—
Kelly Bastone,
Outside,
10 Feb. 2026
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And, because life sometimes imitates art, Williams and Storrie are heading to the Olympics.—
Anna Zucca,
Vanity Fair,
23 Jan. 2026
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The silk mimics the pale splatter of a real dropping, while the spider’s body provides the dark mass at the center.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
27 Feb. 2026
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Unlike Wegovy and Zepbound, which target one or two hormones that help regulate appetite, retatrutide mimics three.—
Fran Kritz,
Verywell Health,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Lampoons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lampoons. Accessed 8 Mar. 2026.
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