as in to lampoon
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Recent Examples of satirize
Bateman's seething anger at having his card bested by that of his colleague Paul Allen (Jared Leto), despite the two cards looking almost identical, satirized the vacuous materialism of 1980s yuppie culture.
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New Atlas, 9 June 2025
Sean Solo’s TikToks also satirize how a Hongdae man approaches women of different ethinicities and nationalities.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 5 June 2025
With Illinois at the epicenter of a national and potentially global crisis, the play satirizes a range of all-American ideologues: conspiracy theorists, doomsday preachers, isolationists and jingoistic military types.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
This raises a lot of questions about satirizing acutely current events, and what to do when those events are on the verge of overtaking the satire.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
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New Atlas, 9 June 2025
Sean Solo’s TikToks also satirize how a Hongdae man approaches women of different ethinicities and nationalities.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 5 June 2025
With Illinois at the epicenter of a national and potentially global crisis, the play satirizes a range of all-American ideologues: conspiracy theorists, doomsday preachers, isolationists and jingoistic military types.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
This raises a lot of questions about satirizing acutely current events, and what to do when those events are on the verge of overtaking the satire.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for satirize
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The daily newspapers, including the rock-ribbed conservative Los Angeles Times, lampooned Sinclair mercilessly.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2025
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There's also an escalating series of cloak-and-dagger theatrics, which are in line with McBride's penchant for lampooning the retrograde behaviors and rituals of the Southern aristocracy.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
5 May 2025
Verb
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The Muppet Show was parodying a format that doesn’t exist anymore.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
6 June 2025
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Reno 911! is a mockumentary comedy series that parodies law enforcement and premiered on Comedy Central in 2003.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
7 July 2025
Verb
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He was previously mocked on social media during a loss to Austin Peay in November, when the Fox College Hoops broadcast showed Clark sitting in the stands.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
19 July 2025
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The longtime litigator mocked the Mexican president's response.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
18 July 2025
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Typically, very young children are the ones who are most excited to mimic their parents and lend a hand with laundry.—
Christine Carrig,
The Atlantic,
21 July 2025
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Artificial tears and lubricants, which are sold over the counter in a variety of brands, mimic your own tears and help rewet the eyes.—
Angela Haupt,
Time,
21 July 2025
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Perhaps the Lake Bluff streakers heard of those at CLC and wanted to imitate them.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
23 July 2025
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The park’s hub-and-spoke design has been copied by parks around the world, but the caliber of Disneyland’s craftsmanship wasn’t easily imitated.—
Eve Chen,
USA Today,
18 July 2025
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Now the state is often derided as a place where nothing can get done, a reputation symbolized by its high-speed rail project, which is much delayed and over budget, Sramek said.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
18 July 2025
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Florida airports soon must submit monthly reports on weather modification activities or face the loss of state funding under a controversial new law derided by critics as fueling conspiracy theories.—
Skyler Swisher,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 July 2025
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From the earliest days of Greek drama Herakles is ridiculed for his brutish way of eating his food, his preference for a good meal versus a good woman and, in Aristophanes’s The Bird, even his reluctance to leave a barbecue in order to help save his own father.—
John Mariani,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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That audio clip has been shared some 60,000 times on TikTok, often by Venezuelans ridiculing the notion that everybody from their country is a gangster.—
ProPublica,
ProPublica,
23 July 2025
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The show’s first limp wrist belongs to a novelty teapot caricaturing Wilde as a man-woman.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
15 July 2025
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Of course, his privilege was intolerable to some, and he was caricatured in the press.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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“Satirize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/satirize. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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