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as in to stab
to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object
let's skewer our marshmallows on these sticks and start toasting
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as in to ridicule
to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter
the satirical comic strip gleefully skewers many of society's sacred cows
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Recent Examples of skewer
Saturday Night Live opened by skewering Donald Trump‘s latest choice of a Fox News personality for a top administration position.
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 May 2025
The tech entrepreneur also shared a post on social media calling for Trump's impeachment and skewered the president's signature tariffs, predicting a recession this year.
—Arkansas Online, 6 June 2025
The tech entrepreneur even shared a post on social media calling for Trump’s impeachment and skewered the president’s signature tariffs, predicting a recession this year.
—Michelle L. Price, Twin Cities, 6 June 2025
Charlie Brooker, the mastermind behind Black Mirror, began his career as an edgy British satirist with a gift for skewering mainstream TV and a passionate love for video games.
—Martha Bayles, National Review, 15 May 2025
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Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 May 2025
The tech entrepreneur also shared a post on social media calling for Trump's impeachment and skewered the president's signature tariffs, predicting a recession this year.
—Arkansas Online, 6 June 2025
The tech entrepreneur even shared a post on social media calling for Trump’s impeachment and skewered the president’s signature tariffs, predicting a recession this year.
—Michelle L. Price, Twin Cities, 6 June 2025
Charlie Brooker, the mastermind behind Black Mirror, began his career as an edgy British satirist with a gift for skewering mainstream TV and a passionate love for video games.
—Martha Bayles, National Review, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for skewer
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Early morning stabbing in Downtown Pittsburgh sends one person to hospital Food & Drink Product Recall Walmart Kroger Mary Cunningham Mary Cunningham is a reporter for CBS MoneyWatch.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
18 June 2025
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Wohl allegedly tried to stab the officer, who had knife marks on his vest, sources said.—
Sheetal Banchariya,
New York Daily News,
17 June 2025
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has ridiculed Red Bull's protest, which challenged George Russell's maiden victory of the 2025 season in Canada.—
Saajan Jogia,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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San Francisco has been consistently ridiculed for its rise in homeless population and videos of open-air drug use on the city’s streets.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2025
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At his best, Towns shoots like an archer, drives to the hoop like a rugby bruiser, and glides on his pivot foot, one smooth semicircle after another, like a grade-school protractor with its point puncturing the paper.—
Vinson Cunningham,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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The dura can be damaged from head injuries or punctured during surgical procedures involving the sinuses, brain or spine, such as lumbar puncture, epidurals, spinal anesthesia or myelogram.—
Danielle Wilhour,
The Conversation,
28 May 2025
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In September 2024, she was mocked online after releasing a single.—
Kate Plummer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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Tonally, the show is all over the place, laying on the moody theatrics one moment, mocking Dave’s writerly pretenses the next.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
25 June 2025
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She was found on the ground near the lifeguard stand with an umbrella stake that had pierced the front of her left shoulder and was sticking out the back of her arm by about 1 foot, Asbury Park Fire Chief Kevin Keddy told ABC News.—
Emily Shapiro,
ABC News,
25 June 2025
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The scepter pierced the ground of the Huanacaure mountain, and so rose the glimmering empire of Cuzco.—
Ana Karina Zatarain,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
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Courts can’t stick their heads in the sand to an obvious way that a new technology might severely harm the incentive to create, just because the issue has not come up before.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
26 June 2025
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Resist the urge to stick exclusively with people from the same background who all see the world the same way.—
Robert E. Siegel,
CNBC,
26 June 2025
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The 45-year-old victim was jabbed once by an assailant around 6:29 p.m. on Laconia Ave.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2025
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Glasner quite frequently does a sort of pointy thing, jabbing his finger at the south London air, when Crystal Palace score.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
11 May 2025
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These kids would be walking around down the road and the F.B.I. would pick them up and take them down to the jail to be interrogated, then tell them to walk home.—
Nick Estes,
New Yorker,
26 June 2025
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Since its Sundance debut, the film has played many festivals, from Cannes to Independent Film Festival Boston, which picked Sorry, Baby as the capstone for this year’s edition of the fest.—
Andy Crump,
Time,
26 June 2025
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“Skewer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skewer. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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