caricature
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A candidate who talks about food and gas prices and community is difficult to caricature as a threat.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026
It’s as if the director couldn’t bear to allow the figure to be anything more than a caricature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Pattinson portrays Hansen as a caricature of himself, accentuating the journalist’s unmistakable vocal cadence to remove any distance between “To Catch a Predator” and the man behind the show.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
“Forget the tired caricature of Europe as a low-growth value trap,” said strategists led by Gerry Fowler.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
He’d always been stubborn—that was clear from the Dreyfus affair—but now he was becoming a caricature of himself.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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Edgeworth, who had used similar caricatures in other stories, was moved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
From there, he rose through the ranks of the company, taking charge of an office where his portraits and keenly observed caricatures of colleagues were prominently displayed.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Their testimonials on our website demonstrate that they are real, complex human beings, not caricatures.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
There’s still plenty of eye rolling in China at caricatures of the U.S. presented by the propaganda apparatus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
Sean pulled out a chart with caricatures he had drawn of every member of the varsity and JV basketball teams.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
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They are caricatured as tourists, or cowboys, or worse—Ted Lasso.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
"Magyar will want, as he did during the campaign, not to be caricatured as being a pawn of Brussels; do not expect him to say yes to everything," said an EU diplomat.
From Barron's ● Apr. 13, 2026
Hegseth’s bravado has also been caricatured on “Saturday Night Live,” which opened two weeks in a row with a satirical portrayal of him as angry, dimwitted and hyped up on the violence of war.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026
But in this case, critics and social media users from Kerala and beyond have called out the film for its caricatured depiction of the state, particularly Sundari.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025
He would mumble sotto voce, pausing now and then to emit a murmur that students caricatured as “nim-nim-nim.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Instead of caricaturing how firms set prices, the commission should grapple with how the practice actually works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
In a different sequence, our ensemble characters take turns reading an online screed caricaturing billionaires as yacht-bound playboys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
By 2017, Saturday Night Live was caricaturing Ms Trump in a mock advertisement for a perfume called "Complicit."
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2023
He captures her coquettish coyness without caricaturing it.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
Friends are great in caricaturing, but I really have the honor and pleasure of being just that.
From The Children of the World by Paul Heyse
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