dramatize

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Recent Examples of dramatize No playwright of the modern era has more compassionately — or accurately — dramatized the human consciousness of time, loss and the gap between hope and reality. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025 That clash plays out in scenes that dramatize a grand theoretical conflict between science and the dark arts. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024 Directed and co-written by Alex Parkinson, Last Breath dramatizes the true story of a saturation-diving accident that took place off the coast of Scotland in 2012, and is based on Parkinson and Richard da Costa's 2019 documentary of the same name. Megan McCluskey, TIME, 1 Mar. 2025 Instead, the case of Mahler-Werfel dramatizes how opportunity, environment, and other contingencies shape artistic careers. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dramatize
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatize
Verb
  • The brightly colored animal creations depict everything from sloths and raccoons to birds, elephants and giraffes.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
  • No situation depicted that more than Trump and Vance's Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier this month, where the three men got into a shouting match in front of the media over the prospects of a ceasefire deal to end the war in Ukraine.
    Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2025
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  • In Figure 2, red dots represent safety or operational events.
    Sabbir Rangwala, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • As mentioned earlier, it was produced alongside the last generation GMT-Master (I) for some years, and, as such, represented a slightly more expensive offering.
    Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2025
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  • They’re required to see the race from inside the car (immersed in the on-track action), but also from the pits (making tactical adjustments) and from the operations center (where analysts interpret vast streams of data).
    John Cairney, Sportico.com, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Supreme Court curbed agency power over regulations The growing conflict between Trump's executive branch and the judiciary comes a year after the Supreme Court overturned a 40-year precedent that held courts should defer to agency expertise in interpreting ambiguous federal laws.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2025
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  • Related Articles The Newfound Fervor for Indigenous Art Masks Thorny Questions MoMA Made a Solid Choice for Its Next Director, But Not an Inspiring One One segment portrays a church set ablaze, with Sámi protesters holding wooden spears at a group of Norwegian settlers in retreat.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • During her time in WWE, Barbie Blank portrayed Kelly Kelly.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
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  • That renders every emotional moment (what made the original Lion King so terrific) utterly lifeless.
    Barry Levitt, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
  • There is no reason to say that the current challenges render AI’s implementation impossible.
    William Tarr, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • One of the underlying actuarial assumptions of Social Security when it was enacted, apparently, was that the government wouldn’t be paying a whole lot of money to a whole lot of retirees.
    Eli Amdur, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Illinois, California and Minnesota have enacted laws protecting the earnings of young creators, and Minnesota's law includes a similar provision to Utah's that allows content featuring minors to be taken down.
    CBS News, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • So first night in Arizona, Jane’s is performing, and toward the end of the set, Dave’s kind of running around, bumping into Perry and just doing his thing.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
  • For example, Dries Sels and colleagues at New York University performed similar calculations on a regular laptop using tensor networks – which reduce the amount of data and hence energy needed to perform simulations, reported New Scientist.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
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  • Strong antivirus software acts as a digital shield, safeguarding against potential infections that could compromise personal data or device security.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2025
  • The new Staple store at 21 Mercer Street acts as a community hub, incubating culture for generations to come.
    Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025

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