irreverent
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The irreverent news website had seemingly cracked the code for social-media virality, and would soon become one of the first digital-media startups to achieve unicorn status with a valuation of over $1 billion.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026
She's an artist who defies convention, not simply because of her age and her bold, irreverent work, but also because of how she got here.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
Leonard Bernstein was commissioned to write a theatrical piece for the center’s opening in 1971, which turned out to be an irreverent “Mass” — musically, liturgically, culturally and, most assuredly, politically.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
The campaign uses a more irreverent tone than most pharmaceutical ads to catch consumers’ attention, Cinca said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
With Jefferson, however, the colorful epithets and irreverent images did not come so easily.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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