dramatization

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The intent is a kind of re-creation, or dramatization, of Cleopatra’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

Although the movie is a Hollywood dramatization of what actually happened during the 2008 financial crisis, Saluzzi made an analogy to this scene and said it may be how financial institutions are now thinking.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 11, 2025

A distressing docufiction, the film is a candid dramatization of her emergency phone calls.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2025

Many who digested the case when it first unspooled may see little need to pick up this thread via a new dramatization, regardless of how compelling it is.

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2025

The dramatization of slavery never failed intensely to arouse Negroes hearing its honors spelled out for the first time.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey