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cartoon

[kahr-toon] / kɑrˈtun /


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The paper's cartoon has also homed in on skyrocketing fuel costs, joking that staff at the pump "don't care what diesel cost when you started driving".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The cartoon turned the dynamic into an armed raid by cereal characters, but the basic instinct — watch a useful moral vocabulary become commercially useful — was already recognizable.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

Sugary cereals are generally placed on lower shelves in stores, the better for children to see the cheery packaging and cartoon mascots.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Some self-care advice: Finch, a popular wellness and habit-tracking app, promises to help users achieve their self-care goals with the assistance of a colorful cartoon bird.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

Finn had seen a cartoon version of a trial once—maybe for Bugs Bunny?—and that was enough for him to realize that these were seats for a judge and a jury.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

In his 1989 book “Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist,” Jones codified his rules for the cartoons, like “The Road Runner cannot harm the Coyote except by going ‘Beep-Beep!’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

The monk had appeared at a magistrate's hearing to support military intelligence officers accused of abducting Prageeth Eknaligoda, whose cartoons were critical of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

As well as his paintings on canvas, Mansour created cartoons, children's illustrations and wrote books.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Burch recalls test-screening reactions from young viewers, some of whom had never seen the original cartoons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

I went up into the den to watch morning cartoons.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English




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