satirical
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The Act 3 witches’ ballet featured a satirical re-enactment of the murder of Duncan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Jimmy Mulville, the co-founder of Hat Trick Productions, which makes the satirical news quiz Have I Got News For You, told the same newspaper he could understand the corporation's predicament.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
We can look at the films he’s made before and since, and see it as yet another example of his satirical bent.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Her “Helen,” a satirical reworking of Euripides’ tragicomedy and the eternal beauty myth, ought to be better known.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
Hence the 2004 headline in the satirical newspaper The Onion on the passing of postmodernism’s leading light: Jacques Derrida “Dies.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing satirical
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