caricatures

Example Sentences

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All of them are at their best when they behave relatively normally instead of straying into caricatures.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Characters are caricatures, be it a villain that feels plucked from a cartoon western, complete with a purring raccoon for a sidekick, to a greedy wannabe politician of a bank manager.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Brahim Chnina, the Moroccan father of a schoolgirl who falsely claimed that Paty had asked Muslim students to leave his classroom before showing the caricatures, was sentenced to 13 years.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

He was best at broader caricatures, impressions and sketch comedy and as his reputation and audiences grew, so did his ambition and control over his programmes.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

Neanderthals are often depicted in caricatures as the archetypical brutish and stupid ‘cave people’, but recent evidence has changed their image.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari