lampooned
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Celine Dion is lovingly lampooned in all her sentimental goofiness, along with the fervid plot of James Cameron’s blockbuster.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
A year after he lampooned a judge in a mocking poem, he had the misfortune of standing before him charged with seditious libel for a pamphlet satirizing the Church.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
Eight years ago, Jonny Bairstow was lampooned in the Australian media for a 'headbutt' to home opener Cameron Bancroft in a Perth bar.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026
Exact Sciences, which went public in 2001, sells genetic tests, a liver cancer screening test called Oncoguard, and Cologuard, which was memorably lampooned External link by Saturday Night Live in 2023.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
In his comic play The Clouds, Aristophanes, writing in 420 bc, lampooned rhetoric as the art of weak reasoning, “which by false arguments triumphs over the strong.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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