satirized

Definition of satirizednext
past tense of satirize
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Verb
  • Murphy famously parodied Wonder on SNL, but the two became friends when Wonder joined him for a sketch on the show.
    John Ross, Vanity Fair, 19 Apr. 2026
  • This created a direct clash with golf purists — as parodied in Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore 2 — resulting in the PGA suspending golfers participating in LIV.
    Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 10 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • This idea of reasonableness is easily caricatured as moral timidity or a bloodless neutrality that drains politics of passion.
    Nikhil Krishnan, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • For years, national media caricatured our city as a war zone.
    Andy Shaw, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Few people had Tate mocked to go this high, especially if Arvell Reese was going to be on the board.
    Andrew Greif, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Sources at the premiere’s after-party speculated about whether Wintour had given her famous friends the heads-up that they were mocked in a movie that all of Conde had come up to support.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • He’s ostracized, bullied, ridiculed, beaten.
    Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The subject of this engaging biography is the eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who is often ridiculed as a faulty precursor to Darwin.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Then comes that particular way of speaking so well imitated by comedians Armando Roblan and Eddy Calderón during long seasons in Calle Ocho theaters and on Miami radio.
    Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Each of the wounded imitated the pain and symptoms of an injury that could happen on the battlefield.
    Chelsea Torres, FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • King favored a genial, non-confrontational style that critics derided as too easygoing and soft for a news network, but which made his program a natural stop for politicians and entertainers who wanted to make their views known without sparking overt conflict.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
  • He was derided by fans and became the target of hard slides and cheap shots from opponents.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Later, other stars like Stevie Nicks, David Cassidy, and Mick Jagger mimicked the look in a more choppy, shaggy way with bangs, layers, and tons of texture—instead of the sleekness of the original look.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Their system consisted of submerging pre-term lambs in artificial amniotic fluid, where a pumpless oxygenator, supplied by a sweep gas, mimicked placental perfusion.
    Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 28 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • The chip is designed to keep working when GPS is jammed or spoofed, a growing concern in both defense and commercial settings.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • According to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, reported by Bleeping Computer, hackers have been targeting these BPOs, or business process outsourcing companies, to direct employees and customers to spoofed single sign-on webpages and steal their credentials.
    Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 10 Apr. 2026
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“Satirized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirized. Accessed 29 Apr. 2026.

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