satirist
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Or perhaps a practical application of satirist William Makepeace Thackeray’s celebrated challenge: “How to live well on nothing a year.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
And facts so clean that a satirist would reject them as too on the nose: one six-pack, one dry village, one retired pilot, one $95,000 plane.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
Gladiatorial combat in the arena was, in the satirist Juvenal’s phrase, “bread and circuses” for the Roman masses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Allen may have surprised listeners who know the director as a master satirist of the flawed personality, but Maher was right on brand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2025
Now, he was a satirist, so he left it that way, and my father was, I guess I realized too late, a romantic, so he ended it another way.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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