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Recent Examples of dramatize
Netflix dramatized the events in Ryan Murphy’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, bringing the case back into the spotlight and making people advocate for their release.
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Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2024
The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Originally released in 1987 and adapted from the book The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford, Full Metal Jacket dramatizes the horrors of the American military during the Vietnam War.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
How The Breakthrough dramatizes the case The Breakthrough is a dramatized retelling of the events surrounding the Linköping murders.
—Isabella Wandermurem, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
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Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 31 Dec. 2024
The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
Originally released in 1987 and adapted from the book The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford, Full Metal Jacket dramatizes the horrors of the American military during the Vietnam War.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2024
How The Breakthrough dramatizes the case The Breakthrough is a dramatized retelling of the events surrounding the Linköping murders.
—Isabella Wandermurem, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatize
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His film, a sweeping three-and-a-half-hour-long epic that depicts fictional architect László Tóth, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor starting over in the United States, has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN,
18 Feb. 2025
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Then again, a closer confluence between what’s depicted, and the revelation of its meaning, would’ve certainly yielded stronger and more visceral drama.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
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In addition to all that, Councilmember Traci Park, who represents Pacific Palisades, is heading up the City Council’s five-member ad hoc committee on wildfire recovery, which met for five hours Thursday to pore over rebuilding strategies.—
Julia Wick,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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Unions representing foreign service officers and other USAID employees sued the Trump administration on Thursday to halt efforts to dismantle the agency and freeze most foreign aid.—
Shannon Bond,
NPR,
7 Feb. 2025
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From Network Monitoring to Network Intelligence Network monitoring has historically been reactive: engineers sift through logs, interpret cryptic alerts, and manually trace the source of problems.—
Kyle J. Russell,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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Pieter Mulier interpreted American beauty as simple and modern, a vision perfectly reflected in this sandal silhouette.—
Talia Abbas,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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The many actors who have portrayed the character on screen include Alan Rickman, Ben Mendelsohn and Matthew Macfadyen.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2025
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But Bill Nye, former Science Guy and current C.E.O. of the Planetary Society, has portrayed the dream of Mars colonization as a dangerous delusion.—
Dhruv Khullar,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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Nonetheless, an underperforming album or run of singles can render even seemingly infallible artists to the khia asylum – like, say, post-Radical Optimism Dua Lipa.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
11 Feb. 2025
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In comparison, Steel Nomad's regular (4K) and Light (1440p) subtests focus on APIs more commonly used for game development, like Metal, DirectX 12, and Vulkan, to assess gaming geometry and particle rendering speeds.—
Matthew Buzzi,
PCMAG,
10 Feb. 2025
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The Ivanhoe grant marked only the latest fallout in the Kansas City metro from the wave of spending cuts and reductions enacted since President Donald Trump took office.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
18 Feb. 2025
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Some states are already making moves President Biden’s administration largely blocked states from enacting work rules of their own and required 10 states to remove the requirement for Medicaid coverage.—
Amanda Seitz,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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Verbruggen performed well, becoming the youngest goalkeeper to play at the tournament for 60 years against Poland in the group stages en route to a 2-1 defeat by England in the semi-finals.—
Andy Naylor,
The Athletic,
15 Feb. 2025
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In 2013, the group was hired by Vladimir Putin to perform a pre-Valentine's Day concert as part of a campaign to boost the country's declining birthrate.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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Bove claimed that former U.S. Attorney Damian Williams had acted improperly and that Adams was needed to help the Trump administration with immigration enforcement.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
16 Feb. 2025
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All offseason long the Red Sox have spoken about the need to act with urgency to restore the club to its place as a perennial contender, but after five years of falling short those words were beginning to ring hollow with many fans.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Dramatize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramatize. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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