parodying

verb

present participle of parody
as in mocking
to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of parodying a public figure's distinctive mannerisms takes particular talent

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Recent Examples of parodying The latter went from working on Star Trek properties (Next Gen, Voyager, Enterprise) to parodying them with MacFarlane on The Orville. — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2026 The White House announced Arcade on social media with a series of animations parodying Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo loading screens. — Lou Kesten, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026 Over two months, the protesters and their supporters – most who appeared to be digitally-savvy GenZ – used Instagram and Snapchat to connect, organize, and share countless reels parodying the government. — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026 The popular national chain of gas stations and convenience stores agreed to settle a lawsuit with an oddities store outside Winter Park earlier this year over a collection of merchandise parodying the company’s iconic, bucktoothed logo. — Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2026 The chatbot would then produce a snide response parodying Chan. — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026 Grande said, parodying one of his lines from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 16 July 2026 Lasso, in his initial introduction to audiences, wasn’t the warm, pun-loving, inspirational coach audiences would eventually embrace through Apple +, but a slightly arrogant buffoon parodying the average American sports fan. — Charles Moss, New York Times, 24 June 2026 It's been 13 years since the last Scary Movie hit theaters in 2013, and the newest installment reverts to its roots in parodying a variety of movies and television shows. — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parodying
  1. mocking
  2. imitating
  3. doing
  4. spoofing
  5. mimicking
Verb
  • Meanwhile, Vision decrypts a mocking email exchange between Ultron and Paladin, who’s angry his unbreakable contract was broken.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2026
  • As proof of how much of a joke this has become for people is that a sketch mocking their drama was part of the October 10 episode of Saturday Night Live UK.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of mocking
Verb
  • Rather than simply imitating the brain with silicon chips, the approach uses actual neurons to perform computational work.
    — Mike McRae October 19, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026
  • OpenAI denied intentionally imitating Johansson’s voice and later withdrew the feature.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of imitating
Verb
  • In 2025 the hyperscalers alone poured more than $300 billion into data centers, chips, and grid capacity, and that spend is doing real work in the top-line growth figures.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • What employers are doing Kostka says there have recently been fewer health insurers in her area to choose from.
    — Alana Semuels, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of doing
Verb
  • The would-be crook used caller ID-spoofing technology, which experts say is getting more and more convincing.
    — Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Musical guests Katseye cameoed in a sketch on last night’s Saturday Night Live, spoofing their point of origin, Netflix’s Dream Academy.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of spoofing
Verb
  • The novel was also partly epistolary, including segments of fictional court transcripts and news coverage created by King (who enjoyed mimicking different writing styles).
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2026
  • In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Germany and the United States surpassed the United Kingdom economically, not simply by mimicking it but by taking its innovations further.
    — NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of mimicking

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“Parodying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parodying. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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