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

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

From New York Times • May 6, 2011

The tendency appears to be to minimize, under the influence of general enlightenment, the crude supernatural parts of such combinations, to exalt the moral and spiritual, and to allegorize or rationalize the rest.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris