as in to lampoon
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Recent Examples of satirize
The all-inclusive vacation is easy to mock as tacky—as in the TikTok meme satirizing British tour company Jet2holidays.
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Adam Erace, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2025
There are things to satirize, trouble, and celebrate about the Black bourgeoisie.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 11 Nov. 2025
During the subsequent century, filmmakers returned to this reflexive mode of cinema for a variety of reasons, either to examine their artistic process, explore formal innovations, expose some horrible secret, or, perhaps most often, satirize the ivory-tower industry itself.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
Producers have moved the show to an every-other-week schedule to more fully satirize current events.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Adam Erace, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2025
There are things to satirize, trouble, and celebrate about the Black bourgeoisie.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 11 Nov. 2025
During the subsequent century, filmmakers returned to this reflexive mode of cinema for a variety of reasons, either to examine their artistic process, explore formal innovations, expose some horrible secret, or, perhaps most often, satirize the ivory-tower industry itself.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
Producers have moved the show to an every-other-week schedule to more fully satirize current events.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirize
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Dogecoin, for comparison, was introduced in 2013 by software engineers lampooning what seemed like outlandish Bitcoin speculation at the time.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
21 Aug. 2025
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After lampooning Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Vice President JD Vance and President Donald Trump (again after Episode 1) in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement-skewering second episode Got a Nut on Aug. 6, South Park didn’t released a new episode last week.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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The scene came in a fictional segment parodying Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead in which Maggie defends her architectural talents after her daycare teacher punishes her for making beautiful structures from building blocks.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Dec. 2025
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Grande, who has been featured as a musical guest twice (once as part of her double-duty in 2016), sang, parodied and disappeared into characters all through the night, flexing her skillset as a host who’s game to try on costumes no matter how ridiculous, impressions no matter how far-fetched.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
20 Dec. 2025
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Many users on social media mocked the team for the design.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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When hackers reveal his identity and expose it to the public, he is ridiculed, mocked, and threatened.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
8 Jan. 2026
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An onboard synthesizer manipulates a small set of core sounds to mimic everything from the roar of a jet plane to the flushing of a toilet through a little speaker in the Brick.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Jan. 2026
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The brand also offers its own line of long-lasting polish that, when paired with its Magic Finish Top Coat, mimics the appearance and wearability of gel polish without having to use a UV lamp.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
6 Jan. 2026
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James said while walking through the venue, imitating her excitement.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
6 Jan. 2026
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When anchors John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois took over CBS Evening News last year, part of the network’s strategy was to imitate a local news format, with a genial cast of personalities reporting from the field.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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The Deserving could change that, but the readers who need it most are those who would deride Vartkessian as the bloodiest of bleeding hearts.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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This came after her previous comments deriding many accusers in the wake of the #MeToo movement.—
Lee Smith,
CNN Money,
28 Dec. 2025
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Mamdani has many bold ideas to address this—some of which have been ridiculed—and not all will be achieved.—
Sally Susman,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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It is often caricatured through its most notable proponents such as President Donald Trump in the United States and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, both of whom critics perceive as populists wrapping themselves in Bitcoin’s banner for partisan theater and political donations.—
Saul Hudson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
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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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