irreverent
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The irreverent news website had seemingly cracked the code for social-media virality, and would soon become one of the first digital-media startups to achieve unicorn status with a valuation of over $1 billion.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026
She's an artist who defies convention, not simply because of her age and her bold, irreverent work, but also because of how she got here.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
No, the kind of Raimi movie you’re getting here is irreverent, silly and very bloody: a character study that also features incredibly goofy scares.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
So abrasive are its words and affecting its tune that the agnostic and irreverent journalist H.L.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 25, 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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