The word caricature has appeared in 198 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 29 in the guest essay “Colleges Have to Be Much More Honest With Themselves” by Greg Weiner:
The portrait of college campuses as places suffused with one-sided ideology may be a caricature. But a caricature is an exaggerated portrait of something real. Recognizing that underlying reality would better position colleges and universities to defend our independence.
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