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as in parodist
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as in essayist
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Recent Examples of satirist
Since his brief stint with the band Fleet Foxes, Tillman has built out existential concept records that span folk, big-band jazz, soft rock, and indie pop, with a satirist’s eye for the disturbingly absurd.
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The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2025
Jules Feiffer, a cartoonist, author, playwright, and political satirist who documented and defined a particular strain of 20th century Jewish-American experience in a career that extended over nine decades since the 1940s, died today at his home in upstate New York.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Trump’s win or loss doesn’t change our job as political satirists: to jump down the throat of what government is and isn’t doing right.
—Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
Ladbroke's, in London…The Committee, a smart little group who do a revue of often funny, frozen improvisations, smashing head-on into politics…The wily, eighteenth-century satirist.
—Vogue, 2 Feb. 2025
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The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2025
Jules Feiffer, a cartoonist, author, playwright, and political satirist who documented and defined a particular strain of 20th century Jewish-American experience in a career that extended over nine decades since the 1940s, died today at his home in upstate New York.
—Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Trump’s win or loss doesn’t change our job as political satirists: to jump down the throat of what government is and isn’t doing right.
—Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
Ladbroke's, in London…The Committee, a smart little group who do a revue of often funny, frozen improvisations, smashing head-on into politics…The wily, eighteenth-century satirist.
—Vogue, 2 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirist
Noun
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Amid Red Rocks Amphitheatre’s flurry of EDM and heritage-rock shows is this master musical parodist’s.—
John Wenzel,
The Denver Post,
16 Jan. 2025
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Amid Red Rocks Amphitheatre’s flurry of EDM and heritage-rock shows is this master musical parodist’s.—
John Wenzel,
The Denver Post,
16 Jan. 2025
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The publication of the essayist’s private letters undermines a writer famous for her control.—
Lynn Steger Strong,
The Atlantic,
21 Apr. 2025
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There goes America’s competitive advantage in a warming world, by Robinson Meyer, guest essayist, The New York Times.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2025
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The movie, based on the 2016 by the same name, imagines a fictional pope's death and the subsequent election with characters and twists created by novelist Harris.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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At the Old Stone House, the three people who showed up to join the venue’s director of education, Maggie Weber, were all female Brooklynites: a political-science student, an attorney turned novelist, and a middle-school teacher.—
Henry Alford,
New Yorker,
21 Apr. 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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The funniest part about that is Lisa Ann Walter is actually a really exceptional impressionist.—
Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
16 Apr. 2025
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The comedian and impressionist who has done his impressions to the faces of Michael Buble, Jeff Goldblum, Paul Giamatti and more will be at American Comedy Co. 8 p.m. Thursday, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2025
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Toward the end of our lunch, Henry mentions how one of his favorite playwrights is Tony Kushner.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
22 Apr. 2025
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Some playwrights are as musical with their words as jazz musicians.—
Jeryl Brunner,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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And that’s the vision these storytellers are modeling.—
Stephanie Long,
Essence,
17 Apr. 2025
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Tribeca Studios has partnered with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Miranda Family Fund to launch Colectivo, a fellowship and filmmaking program created to support the next generation of Latino storytellers.—
Lauren Coates,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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By Timothy O'Grady July 8, 2024 Belfast: city of riveters, inventors, linen mill girls, boxers, pamphleteers, revolutionaries, Lambeg drummers, Irish bagpipers, mission hall preachers, and mustachioed burghers with pocket watches.—
Timothy O'Grady,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 July 2024
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However Elena’s modelling career takes off, while Eddie spends his days wandering the streets of New York getting into fights with pamphleteers.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
19 May 2024
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“Satirist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirist. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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