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dramatize

[dram-uh-tahyz, drah-muh-] / ˈdræm əˌtaɪz, ˈdrɑ mə- /


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She bristles when she realizes some dentists are using AI images to upsell patients—deploying color-coded overlays to dramatize borderline findings and justify questionable treatments.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

Sophocles’ “Antigone” and Euripides’ “Suppliant Women” dramatize tensions between personal morality, state power and democratic rights.

From Salon Apr. 13, 2025

But with Bing, whom the filmmakers treat as a genuine co-star worthy of close-ups, contemplation and authentic dog behavior, Watts finds another rich vein of emotion to dramatize with delicacy, humor and intelligent vulnerability.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 4, 2025

This sharply psychological work uses the two-character format to dramatize a dance of fractured identities.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 12, 2025

So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition....

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

Along one wall, a 19th-century trompe l’oeil screen dramatizes the classical gentlemanly taste that dominated among Neo-Confucian elites.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 6, 2026

That shaving scene referenced earlier dramatizes why this and other supposedly neutral policies painfully disfavor some people without diving into a medical manual.

From Salon Oct. 10, 2025

Betty represents tangible reality while Norma embodies seductive illusion in a musical that dramatizes the unfair fight between them for Joe’s jaded soul.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 12, 2024

She was dropped by her publisher and resigned from several boards she served on after “When They See Us,” which dramatizes the events surrounding the trial, debuted.

From Seattle Times Jun. 4, 2024

It dramatizes sound with unique artistic rhythm and design.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Here’s what is true and what is dramatized in “Pressure.”

From Los Angeles Times May 29, 2026

Melies ended up as a toy seller in Paris’ Gare Montparnasse train station -- a story that was dramatized in Martin Scorsese’s 2011 film, "Hugo."

From Barron's Apr. 13, 2026

But in 2026, everything can be dramatized until we’re numb to the truth of what we’re seeing.

From Salon Mar. 21, 2026

Among the precursors of the two-part documentary “Wild Boys: Strangers in Town” is Francois Truffaut’s “The Wild Child” of 1970, the dramatized story of Victor of Aveyron, the celebrated feral enfant of late 1700s France.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 17, 2026

Later, Archie had to concede that Brother Leon had dramatized the sale too vividly and therefore put himself and The Vigils and the entire school on the spot.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

In dramatizing the moment to his own benefit, Jackson provoked hostility from King’s widow and others in the movement’s leadership that lasted decades.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 17, 2026

Cristina Rivera Garza’s “Autobiography of Cotton” begins by dramatizing a 1934 agricultural strike in northern Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 29, 2026

Why was it important to you to tell this story as a documentary versus dramatizing it?

From Salon Sep. 6, 2024

With a few notable exceptions, the result is often over the top or absurd, in part because it’s hard to dramatize an industry already busy dramatizing itself.

From New York Times Jun. 19, 2024

The symbolism of the scene was poignant, dramatizing as it did the passing of the prototypical American and the cause of gradual emancipation.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis




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