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noun

plural of pasquinade

as in satires

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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present tense third-person singular of pasquinade

as in satirizes

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Noun

By 1775, at age 47, as the first shots rang out at Lexington and Concord, her anonymous satires and plays were already shaping public opinion in support of independence.

— Robin Follman, Oc Register, 4 July 2026
His ten other, wildly disparate books include two satires of media and marketing and an elegiac zombie novel set in Manhattan.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

Definition of satires

Verb

The National Weather Service sends up hundreds of balloons every day, to monitor conditions in the atmosphere and keep track of how weather patterns are changing.

— Rebecca Hersher, NPR, 27 May 2026
With Teutonic deadpan, Sander sends up the often ideologically weighted social photography of which his project is an example—and records the giddy, glitchy instability of the Weimar years, when the old order was in disorienting flux, and would soon disappear altogether.

— Max Norman, New Yorker, 21 May 2026

Definition of sends up

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The goofy sketch comedies and homemade spoofs that once filled his channel gradually disappeared, replaced by melancholy short films and bleak monologues.

— Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
But given the current box office sensations of Obsession and Backrooms, Tiddes certainly wishes the timing had allowed for spoofs of those horror movies.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026

Definition of spoofs

Verb

By and large, the General Assembly mocks his policy proposals and ignores his leadership.

— Torrey Snow, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2026
Too often international agencies are established with seemingly noble purposes but end up descending into blatant politicization that mocks their original intent.

— Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of mocks

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Though Claudius ridicules Hamlet for his emotional vulnerability, his grief drives him to avenge his father and emerge as a hero.

— Jeanette Tran, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026
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

Definition of ridicules

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The undulating roofline imitates the Allegheny Mountains, and 38 steel columns create a canopy reminiscent of the region's forests, Prix Versailles says.

— Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 15 June 2026
My mother imitates me, then converts the word into a pair of Korean syllables that sound most like the German.

— Esther Yi, New Yorker, 14 June 2026

Definition of imitates

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Quadcopters remain highly visible because their bulky central bodies stay completely stationary while only rotors spin, but the Phantom Twist mimics a fast-spinning ceiling fan.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 July 2026
These pants have a flat waistband — in both the front and back — and a look that mimics a faux hook-and-eye closure.

— Christina Shepherd McGuire, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026

Definition of mimics

Verb

In another nod to Scream, Cheri Oteri parodies Courteney Cox’s Gale Weathers as the comically unethical news anchor Gail Hailstorm.

— Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 27 June 2026
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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