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irreverent

[ih-rev-er-uhnt] / ɪˈrɛv ər ənt /


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There’s just one episode to go in the fifth and final season of Prime Video’s irreverent superhero satire, “The Boys.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

Her irreverent photographs show off the style: They are framed waist down or shoulders up, from ground level or from far above.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Known for dark, irreverent and unfiltered stand-up, his joke-related legal case reached the Supreme Court of Canada, which ruled in his favor in 2021, an important decision for free expression in comedy and satire.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026

For decades, Chinese brothers Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang have made a name for themselves with sculptures like this: irreverent contemporary artworks that skewer the authoritarian past, and present, of their native homeland.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

The day after the death of Aureliano Segundo, one of the friends who had brought the wreath with the irreverent inscription offered to pay Fernanda some money that he had owed her husband.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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