Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasquinading
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Heinze said some dispatch centers are experimenting with using AI systems to triage the massive volume of calls 911 receives when there's a significant public event, like a major car crash on a busy interstate or a wildfire sending up a towering column of smoke.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
6 Apr. 2026 -
The United States added 178,000 jobs in March, blowing past expectations and showing a resilient labor market just as the war with Iran began escalating, sending up oil prices.—
Rob Wile,
NBC news,
3 Apr. 2026
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When Suzanna, a fledgling psychologist, tells, at Max’s urging, a mocking anecdote about one of her young clients, neither Becky nor the sensitive Andrew get the laugh.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
6 Apr. 2026
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Talkative characters like the froggish Mallow and even Bowser himself are motor-mouthed and sarcastic, nigglingly mocking Mario for his inability to speak in anything other than nods and pantomimes.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
5 Apr. 2026
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Tassoni is best known for his 2023 Black List script Lure, which follows a park ranger lured into the woods by a dangerous, unearthly predator mimicking her dead daughter.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Apr. 2026
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Martha Stewart, who introduced her followers to the tradition in 2005, resurrected the dessert a few days ago on Instagram with a photo of a cake expertly decorated with chocolate curls mimicking a lamb’s wooly coat.—
Lisa Gutierrez
April 3,
Kansas City Star,
3 Apr. 2026
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Instead of imitating other instruments and conforming to conventional musical ideas, Buchla (and Ciani) set out to create a paradigm based on harnessing the flow of electricity itself.—
Andrew Ryce,
Pitchfork,
9 Apr. 2026
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In the clip Miller says a lot without naming names and without directly addressing the life-imitating-art of it all.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
8 Apr. 2026
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But since the start of hostilities in the Middle East, location spoofing in the Persian Gulf has surged dramatically.—
Matthew Chin,
CNBC,
26 Mar. 2026
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In theory, international law should prevent spoofing.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
12 Mar. 2026
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And of course Burrs, whom Donica plays with titanic, Sweeney-esque feeling and force of baritone, is all the more self-hating and compromised, having made a career parodying himself.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2026
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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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Ye has attracted controversy in recent years over his comments deriding both Jewish and Black people, but is seemingly attempting a comeback.—
Taylor Ardrey,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2026
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For centuries, a frequent tactic of antisemitism has been to attack Jewish men, deriding their masculinity.—
Miriam Eve Mora,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2026
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After outlining that corrupt deal, Du Bois dissects how scholarship sympathetic to the northern interests then rewrote Reconstruction’s history, turning the period into a fable of failure while caricaturing Black political leadership and widespread democratic participation.—
Zephyr Teachout,
The Atlantic,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Pasquinading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasquinading. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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