artistic license

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Simms is one of the characters with whom Beletsky took artistic license — some of her testimony was given by other former slaves since she was gone from Mudd’s home by 1865.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024

Christopher Nolan’s movie mixes diligent research with artistic license.

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2023

But Shakespeare “could get away with” a little artistic license, Ms. Ceci laughed.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023

I mean, you could do a biopic about somebody who lived a hundred years ago, but they're not around, so I'm sure you have a lot of artistic license to do whatever you want.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2023

The difference between the two hemispheres may be said to consist in an artless liberty on the one hand, and artistic license on the other.

From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival