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caricature

[kar-i-kuh-cher, -choor] / ˈkær ɪ kə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər /


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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

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

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

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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