satirizing

Definition of satirizingnext
present participle of satirize
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Verb
  • Influencer comedians like Madison Humphrey and Mitsy Sanderson have built large platforms parodying awkward moments.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Heidecker — the mind behind projects including The Tim and Eric Show and On Cinema — has been parodying Jones for years.
    Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • One side feels mocking people and calling names is OK and not creating hate.
    Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026
  • The entertainer gained notoriety on social media in the late 2010s for his sketches mocking niche everyday scenarios.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 1 May 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
  • North Korea also conducted a series of tests last week that state media said involved various new weapons systems, including ballistic missiles armed with cluster-bomb warheads, while its senior officials issued statements ridiculing South Korean hopes for warmer relations.
    Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • North Korea conducted a series of tests last week that state media said involved various new weapons systems, including ballistic missiles armed with cluster-bomb warheads, while its senior officials issued crude statements ridiculing South Korean hopes for warmer relations.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The contest aims to challenge negative stereotypes of seagulls, which are often seen as a nuisance, by imitating them, per local network WTV.
    Adam England, PEOPLE, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Another potential treatment route the study opens up is using machines to massage cancer cells, imitating the rhythmic beating of the heart.
    Anil Oza, STAT, 23 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Minab has been transformed into a landscape of collective grief, where the rhythm of daily life now includes frequent visits to the cemetery, where small graves are arranged in neat rows, just steps apart, mimicking the order of a school assembly.
    Zohreh Saberi, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
  • Much of his free time revolved around listening to the radio, sometimes mimicking different announcers.
    Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 4 May 2026
Verb
  • Some were accurately describing their uniquely homemade contents, while others were deriding the very idea.
    Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2026
  • It’s often used in sports, notably English soccer, as a way of deriding a team’s mentality in clutch moments.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 20 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Faragher said that live jamming and spoofing awareness maps such as those provided by SkAI Data Services can already be integrated into electronic flight bags, the digital information management system used by crews.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The solution is equipped with a dual-constellation GNSS receiver, integrating signals from military constellations, Galileo PRS, and civilian GPS, and providing resistance to spoofing, with enhanced accuracy and availability.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
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“Satirizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirizing. Accessed 9 May. 2026.

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