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Recent Examples of Synonyms for squibs
Noun
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Like the original, all three projects were half-hour comedies.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
3 Nov. 2025 -
In a different era, advertisers would use their big budgets to procure similar stuff during primetime dramas and comedies.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The name belonged to a London area with printing shops, booksellers and cheap lodgings where impoverished writers churned out pamphlets, satires, political tracts, sensational stories and hack journalism—whatever sold.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
8 Nov. 2025
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The show spoofs recent Broadway blockbusters, including celebrity satires and pop culture zings, with hip-hop piano accompaniment.—
Eric E. Harrison,
Arkansas Online,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The show always featured child, tween or teen performers singing, dancing and performing in skits.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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From viral skits to personal storytelling, Alexandra Madison and Jon Bouffard have become a powerful presence in the TikTok universe, drawing in millions with an intimate blend of humor, transparency, and everyday tenderness.—
Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Lodged between musical numbers, the comics, Imogene Coca among them, did six sketches, having already discarded dozens of ideas earlier in the week.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
10 Nov. 2025
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Composite sketches were then widely circulated, prompting a surge of tips that put Wuornos and Moore on investigators’ radar.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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His movies — farces, fables, experiments — reside in surreal worlds of their own.—
Jake Coyle,
Boston Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Squibs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/squibs. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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