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satirizes

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present tense third-person singular of satirize

as in lampoons

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In another nod to Scream, Cheri Oteri parodies Courteney Cox’s Gale Weathers as the comically unethical news anchor Gail Hailstorm.

— Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 27 June 2026
Ben Hania’s film before that, 2020’s Oscar-nominated The Man Who Sold His Skin, parodies the art world’s fetishization of refugees.

— Alexander Durie, Time, 3 Mar. 2026

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Fiction and reality braid in clever ways as Highsmith ridicules her visitor and is inspired by him, imagining a sinister plot (which could in fact be real).

— Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 19 Sep. 2026
Though Claudius ridicules Hamlet for his emotional vulnerability, his grief drives him to avenge his father and emerge as a hero.

— Jeanette Tran, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026

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The emulator is a piece of software that imitates a Game Boy.

— Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 11 Nov. 2026
After a long chase Rama is able to kill the deer with his arrow, but, before dying, Maricha imitates Rama’s voice and cries out for Sita and Lakshmana.

— Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

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The board, in its response to DSA’s recent electoral victories in New York and Colorado, derides DSA candidates for being too radical.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
The move comes days after Havana unveiled its boldest economic liberalization in decades, which Washington derides as superficial.

— Dánica Coto, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026

Definition of derides

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My favorite summer TikTok trend is one that spoofs Netflix true crime dramas by applying their narrative formula to mundane, everyday situations.

— Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 31 July 2026
Otherwise, the software is fast and fluid, and Google apps can run here as long as the user installs MicroG first (an open-source software that spoofs Google Mobile Services).

— Ben Sin, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

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