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irreverent

[ih-rev-er-uhnt] / ɪˈrɛv ər ənt /


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“Club Kid” is a blast: a spicy, surprising and irreverent comedy that rarely peddles the audience anything artificially sweet.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

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

She's an artist who defies convention, not simply because of her age and her bold, irreverent work, but also because of how she got here.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

The names of places carry a charge of the people who named them, reverent or irreverent, descriptive, either poetic or disparaging.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck




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