satirizing

Definition of satirizingnext
present participle of satirize

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Verb
  • And of course Burrs, whom Donica plays with titanic, Sweeney-esque feeling and force of baritone, is all the more self-hating and compromised, having made a career parodying himself.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The cliffhanger of the previous season, which saw Lister impregnated by his female self from an alternate universe, is dismissed with a pre-episode text crawl parodying Star Wars, which irreverently moved way too fast to read.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 14 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Social media is reacting to the latest skit by comedian Druski, mocking women in right-leaning political spaces.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 26 Mar. 2026
  • People created memes and videos mocking Roan for mistreating children.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The political rhetoric aimed at ridiculing Canada bothers Johnson.
    Jeanne Bonner, CNN Money, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Other potential candidates, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gavin Newsom, have achieved fame by berating and ridiculing the other side.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • One of them was imitating his voice.
    Michael Rios, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Another popular skit features Garcia imitating Hispanic mothers who constantly call their children to warn them about the dangers of solo travel, such as getting kidnapped and never seeing their family again.
    Xitlalic Montelongo, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Furthermore, the data gathered by the device could be used to train humanoid robots to perform delicate tasks, such as surgery or complex manufacturing, by mimicking human finesse.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Berkshire’s long-standing tradition Kalshi is mimicking a longtime Berkshire Hathaway tradition that drew about 65,000 of its nearly 400,000 employees in 2024, according to The Wall Street Journal.
    Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • News of the concert comes on the heels of a tumultuous few years for Ye, once a titan of the genre, who has since become better known for public outbursts on social media deriding both Jewish and Black people.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Dontzig and Peterman co-wrote 25 episodes of Murphy Brown including its landmark Season 5 opener — a response to then-Vice President Dan Quayle’s remarks deriding the lead character’s decision to have a baby as a single woman.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 4 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • In theory, international law should prevent spoofing.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 12 Mar. 2026
  • These anomalies are increasingly linked to GPS spoofing in regions experiencing geopolitical conflict.
    Anna Raymaker, The Conversation, 12 Mar. 2026
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“Satirizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirizing. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.

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