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Recent Examples of dramatize
Year: 1995 Runtime: 2h 8m Lee’s attempt to both dramatize the effects (and causes) of African-American crime also tries to double as a thriller.
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2025
While Bill’s storyline dramatizes how isolation can hollow out an individual’s life, King of the Hill also explores how withdrawal can fray community ties more broadly.
—Adrienne Matei, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2025
Popular media loves to dramatize this possibility, especially in the wake of Elon Musk’s xAI antisemitic and genocidal controversies.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
The film, directed by Ron Howard, starred Hanks as Lovell and dramatized the Apollo 13 lunar mission, which faced an explosion after launching and forced NASA scientists to improvise solutions to return its crew safely to Earth.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 9 Aug. 2025
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2025
While Bill’s storyline dramatizes how isolation can hollow out an individual’s life, King of the Hill also explores how withdrawal can fray community ties more broadly.
—Adrienne Matei, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2025
Popular media loves to dramatize this possibility, especially in the wake of Elon Musk’s xAI antisemitic and genocidal controversies.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
The film, directed by Ron Howard, starred Hanks as Lovell and dramatized the Apollo 13 lunar mission, which faced an explosion after launching and forced NASA scientists to improvise solutions to return its crew safely to Earth.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatize
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The photo, informally titled The Scourged Back and depicting an escaped slave believed to have been named Peter Gordon, has been in wide circulation since the nineteeth century and is evocative of the horrors and injustice of slavery.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
18 Sep. 2025
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Some of them are from other dimensions, some of them depict earlier, less experienced versions of a character.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The unit in the 1300 block of Quema Drive in Fremont was sold on July 25, 2025 for $2,588,000 which represents a price per square foot of $1,561.—
Bay Area Home Report,
Mercury News,
20 Sep. 2025
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Nicole Conlan, Chris Gethard, Liz Hynes, Sarah Montana, Sharyn Rothstein and Erica Saleh were elected to serve on the Council representing Film/TV/Streaming members.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
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The attorney general faced immense backlash from the left and the right over her comments, prompting her to clarify the remarks, which were widely interpreted as calling for unlawful prosecutions, on Tuesday morning.—
Jack Birle,
The Washington Examiner,
17 Sep. 2025
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To interpret the results, the team will develop computer algorithms that decode which neurons are firing and what that activity means.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Sep. 2025
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The uniformly white Norman aggressors are portrayed as proto-colonialists.—
Will Collins,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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However, his attorney, Christopher Frost, issued a statement via a spokesperson, portraying his client as the unwitting mark of both Mauriss and Robinson—a characterization both of those men would strongly dispute.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Medieval Europe, an era that gave us heraldry, court jesters, and troubadours, is rendered in dull, grayish brown hues.—
Will Collins,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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Now that the mandate has been expanded to Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D chip, rendering the company unable to sell any products to Chinese customers, according to a report by the Financial Times on Wednesday.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
18 Sep. 2025
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To bridge the gap, a handful of states have enacted orders expanding and protecting access, issuing blanket prescriptions, executive orders and insurance coverage requirements.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
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Treasury yields edged lower Monday, extending recent declines, after the Empire State Manufacturing Index came in far below what Wall Street economists had expected and traders looked ahead to the Federal Reserve enacting an interest rate cut later this week.—
Pia Singh,Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
15 Sep. 2025
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This is when your liver is so scarred up that there’s barely enough normal tissue to perform the routine functions of the liver.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Scientists performed dental exams and took blood samples — participants also filled out dietary questionnaires.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
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By turning a blind eye to scalpers, even giving them the tools to bypass limits and harvest tickets, Live Nation has acted as the promoter, the primary ticket seller, the artists’ manager, and the scalper.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
19 Sep. 2025
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Each has talked up and acted upon the notion that universities’ illiberal and often hypocritical approaches to issues concerning free speech and antisemitism need to change.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Dramatize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramatize. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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