pasquinading

present participle of pasquinade

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Verb
  • The United States is also sending up to 200 troops to Israel to monitor to deal.
    Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • In one, a Russian tank charges along a dirt track, sending up clouds of yellow dust.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The president has spent much of the shutdown mocking Democrats, posting videos of House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries in a Mexican sombrero.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Netflix’s true-crime documentaries have a recognizable sheen to them—the streamer even released a comedy series mocking its take on the genre.
    Paula Mejía, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Jeremy Allen White brilliantly channels The Boss without mimicking him.
    Henry Selick, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Prescribed burns help clean up forest debris and stimulate new growth, mimicking natural fire patterns in the high country.
    Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 5 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Maybe that was just art-making imitating life.
    Thomas Page, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
  • How does this help democracy, imitating what Texas is doing?
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • With spoofing tools, criminals can mimic real bank phone numbers and even use AI to reproduce familiar voices.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Twice now, the Mamdani campaign has rolled out television spots aimed at co-opting and spoofing huge entertainment industry franchises — ABC’s The Bachelor and CBS’ Survivor.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The brand announced the drop on Instagram with a campaign video parodying 1970s game shows.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Meta/Facebook has rolled out engaging bots, parodying famous personas such as Jane Austen; Snapchat has offered a chatbot to individual users.
    John Wihbey, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • By the 1830s, politicians had stopped ridiculing America’s growing canal system.
    Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The show opened with a skit mocking Hegseth, portrayed by comedian Colin Jost, ridiculing the Defense Secretary's address to military leaders in Quantico, Virginia, last week.
    Chandelis Duster, NPR, 5 Oct. 2025
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“Pasquinading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasquinading. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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