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
“She was a social satirist who was very well aware of currents in sociology and, in particular, psychology and psychiatry, which she mocked in a gentle but devastating way.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Mr Poirson-Atlan told the court on Tuesday that he was a "satirist" who had just wished to put forward "a point of view different to that of the mainstream media".
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 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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