allegorize

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Shostakovich flagrantly abuses these genres to allegorize how most of the men in his opera treat most of the women.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022

In 2021, though, it’s rare that a genre pic doesn’t attempt to allegorize contemporary social problems.

From Slate • Aug. 26, 2021

There are plenty of obvious ways a 21st-century novelist could allegorize a story like Brinkley’s.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2013

He was a theater experimenter, a provider of vivid, cacophonous stage tableaus, incorporating ballads, verse and mime within demanding scripts that often used historical settings to dramatize, allude to or allegorize timeless issues.

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012

Paradoxically, in his exposition of the law, Philo follows the letter more closely as the expression of justice, while the later rabbis often allegorize it in order to support their humaner interpretation.

From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Bentwich, Norman