irreverent
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At the time, the irreverent news website had seemingly cracked the code for social-media virality.
From MarketWatch • May 8, 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
He joined BBC Radio 1 in 1998 as the host of the early breakfast show and went on to become a household name presenting his irreverent afternoon show.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 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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