dramatization

Example Sentences

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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

McKenna remembers holding the dying boy — although the boy did not die in his arms, as happened in the movie dramatization.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2024

“Saturday Night” is a fly-on-the-wall dramatization of the tense, chaotic 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of “Saturday Night Live.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 11, 2024

The station had advertised the Halloween special for three weeks, and the broadcast was interrupted with announcements that it was a dramatization.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow