dramatize

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In its second section, the novel flashes forward to dramatize an academic symposium organized to honor Thomas after his death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Sophocles’ “Antigone” and Euripides’ “Suppliant Women” dramatize tensions between personal morality, state power and democratic rights.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025

Such data dramatize the growing risks of outburst floods, says Irfan Rashid, a climate scientist at Kashmir University.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 2, 2024

“October 7” is in the tradition of the “verbatim play,” a form of documentary theater that uses interviews, court testimony and public remarks to dramatize real events.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024

“We Communists don’t dramatize Negro nationalism,” he said in a voice that laughed, accused, and drawled.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright