But for fans who’ve lived with this show across decades — through different casts, different eras, different presidents being parodied on cold opens — the real measure of Michaels’ impact is harder to quantify.
The fact that the team is almost entirely composed of Americans with Italian heritage is by now well-known and lovingly mocked on both sides of the Atlantic.
—
Sara Germano,
Sportico.com,
13 Mar. 2026
Quotas, speech codes and identity politics now mocked as woke and un-American, often defied common sense.
—
Maurice O'Sullivan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 Mar. 2026
Teachers unions, long derided by conservatives as one of the primary vectors of left-wing ideology into public education, have significant influence over the MSBA.
—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
9 Mar. 2026
Bev had seemed to flinch whenever Margot derided their husbands.
Ye allegedly demanded in a stern voice mimicked on the stand by Holding.
—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
5 Mar. 2026
Among the cars on display will be an early ‘90s Supra driven by Paul Walker’s character Brian O’Conner, one of the vehicles Universal mimicked for the roller coaster.
Quantum sensors are one way to address this gap - due to denied and spoofed environments, coverage gaps, malfunctions, etc.
—
Sabbir Rangwala,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
As those descriptions—and the furtive glances exchanged by last night’s host, Finn Wolfhard, and the SNL cast member Ben Marshall, playing Potter and Ron Weasley—implied, a page-to-screen sensation of a more recent vintage was also being spoofed.
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.