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satirizing

verb

present participle of satirize

as in lampooning

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The latter went from working on Star Trek properties (Next Gen, Voyager, Enterprise) to parodying them with MacFarlane on The Orville.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2026
The White House announced Arcade on social media with a series of animations parodying Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo loading screens.

— Lou Kesten, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of parodying

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Vrabel was mocking but wasn't necessarily totally accurate, either.

— Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Five times in the last two months, the president has sneered at and insulted female reporters, mocking their appearance or dismissing their credentials.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026

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OpenAI denied intentionally imitating Johansson’s voice and later withdrew the feature.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
Speaking of the oversized, the collection’s Handloom Cardigan fits the bill but spares you from imitating a balloon, courtesy of those vertical stripes (also known as the oldest optical trick in the fashion book).

— Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 28 Sep. 2026

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San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk and Indianapolis Colts offensive lineman Matt Goncalves were also fined for mimicking drinking beer as a celebration this season.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2026
Some really solid casting there in evoking, but not mimicking, either Faist or Abbott.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

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So many algorithms are chock-full of messaging deriding our state for its problems with affordability, housing costs, homelessness, the wealth gap, or regulation and bureaucracy.

— Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
In response, the players went on strike, deriding the proposal as anti-labor.

— Diego Lasarte, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of deriding

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Musical guests Katseye cameoed in a sketch on last night’s Saturday Night Live, spoofing their point of origin, Netflix’s Dream Academy.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2026
Electronic warfare systems commonly work by jamming or spoofing the radio links used to control unmanned aircraft.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026

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