as in to lampoon
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Recent Examples of satirize
The film satirizes influencer culture and has a great cast of other comedians, including Vanessa Bayer, Kate Berlant, and Conner O’Malley.
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Brian Welk, IndieWire, 26 Aug. 2025
The episode satirized Trump’s tendency to sue his opponents, depicting the president suing the entire town of South Park after residents oppose the government’s push to teach Christianity in schools.
—Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
This still remains Sandler’s only parody, as Sandler usually prefers to just do the genre itself than do a film satirizing the genre.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 30 July 2025
So begins Phillip Howze’s experimental, often confounding play that draws on theatrical traditions of absurdism, burlesque and commedia dell’arte to satirize a slew of Western interlopers, from humanitarian nonprofits to predatory capitalists.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 2025
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Brian Welk, IndieWire, 26 Aug. 2025
The episode satirized Trump’s tendency to sue his opponents, depicting the president suing the entire town of South Park after residents oppose the government’s push to teach Christianity in schools.
—Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
This still remains Sandler’s only parody, as Sandler usually prefers to just do the genre itself than do a film satirizing the genre.
—Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 30 July 2025
So begins Phillip Howze’s experimental, often confounding play that draws on theatrical traditions of absurdism, burlesque and commedia dell’arte to satirize a slew of Western interlopers, from humanitarian nonprofits to predatory capitalists.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 24 July 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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Young Frankenstein, released in 1974, is considered a comedy classic and parodied monster movies of the 1930s, Universal’s Frankenstein films in particular.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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Katie Couric is parodying Sydney Sweeney’s controversial American Eagle jeans ad for a good cause.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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The ability to criticize, question, protest, and even mock those in power is foundational to what America has always aspired to be.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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After the White House meeting, the president posted a cartoonish fake video mocking the Democratic leadership that was widely viewed as unserious and racist.—
Mary Clare Jalonick,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Inevitably, someone ended up swinging a quilt around to mimic the great snake’s darting heads and churning coils.—
Seamus Sullivan
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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Those cuts wound up mimicking what a diamond looks in its natural state.—
James Manso,
Footwear News,
29 Sep. 2025
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The fact that these programs are becoming adept at imitating consciousness, however, may be all that matters for now.—
Webb Wright,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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Multiple images of Trump then pop up behind the New York lawmaker seemingly to imitate a mariachi band.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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In practice, despite his rhetoric, Israel’s longest serving prime minister’s security policy was widely seen as cautious and relatively restrained, even derided as cowardly by political rivals, who also mocked his inability to make decisive moves.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
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That notion, derided by Hoyle, had already evolved from its original meaning.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
23 Sep. 2025
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Gastineau says the video has led to him being ridiculed and scorned.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Both ridicule traditional masculinity and mock attempts to move away from it.—
Ashleigh N. DeLuca,
Parents,
24 Sep. 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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These projects are often caricatured, but their strategic logic is clear: build new clusters, catalyze supply chains and skills, and crowd in private capital.—
Ali Shihabi,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
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