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
Setting out to make a film about the Civil War general burning his way through the South, he ended up with an irreverent, semi-solipsistic travelogue organized around the women he encountered along the way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Leonard Bernstein was commissioned to write a theatrical piece for the center’s opening in 1971, which turned out to be an irreverent “Mass” — musically, liturgically, culturally and, most assuredly, politically.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2026
And gone was the owner of the irreverent nickname "Fatty Lai": he had lost considerable weight.
From BBC • Dec. 20, 2025
It said: Here's a girl who cares about the environment but also has an irreverent sense of humor.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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