Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for melodramatize
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The production is high, and just how many numbers were put on is impressive in its own right.—
Rosa Escandon,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025 -
How much can be hidden in this big personality, one that fills the room, always putting on an act?—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
10 June 2025
Verb
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That’s why overemphasizing individual performance diminishes team performance.—
ESMT Berlin,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Drag Race can overemphasize the evolution a queen has gone through between seasons, but Aja has actually had one.—
Chris Feil,
Vulture,
9 May 2025
Verb
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If the players play up to their full potential, the Packers are going to be very difficult for opposing defenses to stop.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
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His average four-seam fastball velocity is down quite a bit from pre-injury levels, at 95.1 mph, but the pitch has played up a bit while its usage is way down.—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
Verb
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Another hurdle is getting buy-in from red states, where many politicians have espoused the view that hate crimes and domestic terrorism concerns are exaggerated by liberals to police conservative thought.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
31 May 2025
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Trump has long been known for his tendency to exaggerate crowd sizes at his rallies and public events, a pattern that dates back to his very first days in office.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 May 2025
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Throughout the week, Sky players tried not to overstate the importance of the game — after all, their primary focus Saturday was erasing the memory of a season-opening blowout to the Fever in Indianapolis.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
8 June 2025
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The scope of the changes — some have already begun — is difficult to overstate.—
Eddie Pells,
Baltimore Sun,
7 June 2025
Verb
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Please inform and elaborate on that topic through the comment section below, especially if the topic is ticket prices.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
7 June 2025
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The questions are constant, implicit, teasing, elaborated rather than answered in the dark mirror of life writing.—
Book Marks
June 5,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2025
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“Melodramatize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melodramatize. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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