stand-ups

plural of stand-up

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Noun
  • By 1775, at age 47, as the first shots rang out at Lexington and Concord, her anonymous satires and plays were already shaping public opinion in support of independence.
    Robin Follman, Oc Register, 4 July 2026
  • His ten other, wildly disparate books include two satires of media and marketing and an elegiac zombie novel set in Manhattan.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • Scary Movie paved the way for more big-screen parodies, including Date Movie (2006), Epic Movie (2007), and Meet the Spartans (2008).
    Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 27 June 2026
  • Tiddes gave props to Paramount’s marketing department, which created a string of memes and myriad parodies on social media to lead the masses to Scary Movie.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 18 June 2026
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“Stand-ups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stand-ups. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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