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allegorize

[al-i-guh-rahyz] / ˈæl ɪ gəˌraɪz /




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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

Partly this was because Tillstrom was able to allegorize some grown-up themes.

From New York Times • May 6, 2011

Not to allegorize farther—my fate is now, at your perusal of this, accomplished.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel