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as in stabs
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 ridicules
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 skewers
Meanwhile, a story from Indiana explains how one bird species skewers its prey on barbed wire, then returns for it later.
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Wall skewers America’s adoption industrial complex which has worked to take Native babies and children by force or funny business from Native families and communities and place them in white homes for 100 years.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
Wall skewers America’s adoption industrial complex which has worked to take Native babies and children by force or funny business from Native families and communities and place them in white homes for 100 years.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skewers
Verb
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Alex breaks free and, in a panic, repeatedly stabs Evelyn with the syringe.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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Spike takes one of Kelson's tranquilizer darts filled with morphine and stabs Samson in the arm with it.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
23 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Then there’s the loud kind, where the audience openly ridicules you.—
Adrienne LaFrance,
The Atlantic,
15 Sep. 2025
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Wednesday ridicules Pugsley for making a zombie.—
Jessica M. Goldstein,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Recounting his visit with Shelton’s body after she’d been taken off of life support in From Bleak to Dark, Maron punctures the somber scene with a joke about taking a selfie.—
Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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So, tonight, this song goes out to a white man who watches [pornography series] Ghetto Gaggers and mocks Asian people on a podcast.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Oct. 2025
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The exchange mocks our urge to impose order on the messiness of narrative.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Her infectious laugh regularly pierces the newsroom noise.—
Brad Schmitt,
Nashville Tennessean,
20 Oct. 2025
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But the show's greatest asset is its stars, whose endearing real-life friendship pierces through the play’s inherent despair.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
Verb
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With off-putting brusqueness, the acupuncturist sticks needles into my head and left leg, leaves the room—and appears to forget all about me.—
Lucinda Rosenfeld,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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Robbie and Jayson have a furious battle, but Jayson sticks the fatal knife stab before fleeing.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Srinivas, who often jabs the search engine giant, made an interesting point.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Haggard jabs Baird over mailers The race is already tense.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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So until the party picks its next presidential nominee—still at least 18 months away—there is no real leader of the Democratic Party.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
28 Oct. 2025
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For the first time in its history, this year’s batch of Gotham nominees includes 10 Best Feature picks.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Skewers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skewers. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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