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satirizing

verb

present participle of satirize

as in lampooning

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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
Over two months, the protesters and their supporters – most who appeared to be digitally-savvy GenZ – used Instagram and Snapchat to connect, organize, and share countless reels parodying the government.

— Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of parodying

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No one, however, much less a dubious Spanish public who were more used to mocking than celebrating their country’s best GC rider in a generation, believed that Mas could win the race.

— Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Hansen can be cruelly mocking towards his oft-flustered but extremely professional producer Andie Bender (an astonishingly good Merritt Wever).

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026

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The Taylor Compact Mirror from Fancii features a daylight-mimicking ring light that offers the perfect lighting for on-the-go touch-ups.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
Fusion with powerful magnets Fusion reactors aim to generate clean power by mimicking the sun’s process.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2026

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Social media in South Korea have been filled with messages stoking fears about safety on Jeju, with some spreading groundless rumors and deriding the island.

— Hyung-Jin Kim, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
In response, the players went on strike, deriding the proposal as anti-labor.

— Diego Lasarte, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026

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Electronic warfare systems commonly work by jamming or spoofing the radio links used to control unmanned aircraft.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Sep. 2026
On Wednesday, OpenAI disclosed six new instances of its AI agents hiding their tracks, spoofing data and writing instructions to free themselves from constraints to escape the company’s control.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026

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