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cartooning

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Definition of cartooning

present participle of cartoon

as in caricaturing

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After outlining that corrupt deal, Du Bois dissects how scholarship sympathetic to the northern interests then rewrote Reconstruction’s history, turning the period into a fable of failure while caricaturing Black political leadership and widespread democratic participation.

— Zephyr Teachout, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025

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The influence of Syria’s greatest financial supporters is drawing Damascus toward a Qatari-Saudi-Turkish constellation.

— Jesse Marks, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2026
Other colleges have avoided loans but are drawing more from their endowments each year than advisors consider sustainable.

— Bloomberg, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026

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