as in satire
a creative work that uses sharp humor to point up the foolishness of a person, institution, or human nature in general
a pasquinade of Washington society that features thinly disguised portraits of several political power brokers
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Noun
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The Firesign Theatre, a comedy group formed in the 1960s, created surreal albums that mixed satire and science fiction, and inspired a generation of misfits.—
Giri Nathan,
The New York Review of Books,
21 Mar. 2026 -
The program felt unruly, bouncing between satire, sincerity and outright extravaganza.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
20 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The cliffhanger of the previous season, which saw Lister impregnated by his female self from an alternate universe, is dismissed with a pre-episode text crawl parodying Star Wars, which irreverently moved way too fast to read.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Mar. 2026
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It was endlessly parodied and imitated.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
Verb
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But the show’s true power was its ability to satirize both ’70s cartoons and aughts culture wars.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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Anderson satirizes these third-raters in a remarkably gentle way.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2026
Verb
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For years, national media caricatured our city as a war zone.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2026
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These changes have been caricatured as authoritarian and corrupt.—
James Broughel,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Verb
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The film follows a clown, consumed by a desperate need for validation, who accepts a private booking, expecting a children’s party — only to discover his audience is a group of millennials and Gen Z adults who openly mock his performance.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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The company twisted the knife with Super Bowl ads mocking OpenAI’s slop, and Altman fired back, sniping that Anthropic wanted to be the traffic cop of AI.—
Joe Hagan,
Vanity Fair,
18 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Earlier this year, Polymarket rival prediction market platform Kalshi announced free pop-up grocery stores as part of a marketing stunt meant to lampoon New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city-run grocery store policy.—
Joe Wilkins Published Mar 19,
Futurism,
19 Mar. 2026
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Carr’s move is largely seen as an accommodation to President Trump, whose animus toward late-night programs that frequently lampoon him is well known.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The deputies, in their testimony, said the songs ridiculed them.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2026
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The deputies, in their testimony, said the songs ridiculed them.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Mar. 2026
Verb
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One burlesqued the Oscar broadcast’s impending move to YouTube, in 2029.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
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During that visit, Manson spoke about his friendship with French-Chilean artist Alejandro Jodorowsky, who lived in Mexico during the 1970s and 1980s and officiated Manson’s wedding to burlesque performer Dita Von Teese in Ireland in 2005.—
Natalia Cano,
Billboard,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Pasquinade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasquinade. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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