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dramatize

[dram-uh-tahyz, drah-muh-] / ˈdræm əˌtaɪz, ˈdrɑ mə- /


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These dramatize Günter’s contentious but rewarding tutelage under Freud and his erratic marriage to one of Freud’s patients, a Jewish woman named Josine.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

“I write about things that have happened, and I, in a way, dramatize them by putting music to it.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 23, 2025

The Progress Action Fund video doesn’t just dramatize fear.

From Salon Jun. 19, 2025

“We had to dramatize this thing that everybody’s been so afraid of, which is dragon-on-dragon war,” said showrunner Ryan Condal, who wrote the episode.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 4, 2025

So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition....

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

The novel dramatizes the 1950s New York love affair between a newly arrived Jewish refugee, Ilka Weissnix, and a prominent black intellectual named Carter Bayoux.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 18, 2026

The play dramatizes the modern Kafkaesque hell of automated phone systems that make callers wait ungodly amounts of time, to numbing hold music, before speaking to a scripted agent.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 15, 2024

The play dramatizes the story of a Cossack leader in a Ukrainian community almost 400 years ago as he tries to root out witches that local townspeople believe are responsible for a drought.

From New York Times May 27, 2024

The first three episodes of the fourth season of the series, which dramatizes the life of Jesus, played in 2,263 theaters.

From Seattle Times Feb. 4, 2024

It dramatizes sound with unique artistic rhythm and design.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Rick Cole, a former deputy mayor of L.A., said the DSA label for both candidates doesn’t mean they’ll adhere to the most dramatized versions of what DSA stands for.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 22, 2026

Melies ended up as a toy seller in Paris’ Gare Montparnasse train station -- a story that was dramatized in Martin Scorsese’s 2011 film, "Hugo."

From Barron's Apr. 13, 2026

But in 2026, everything can be dramatized until we’re numb to the truth of what we’re seeing.

From Salon Mar. 21, 2026

Among the precursors of the two-part documentary “Wild Boys: Strangers in Town” is Francois Truffaut’s “The Wild Child” of 1970, the dramatized story of Victor of Aveyron, the celebrated feral enfant of late 1700s France.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 17, 2026

A reciprocal relationship between people and clergy is dramatized as the congregation takes an active role in the recitation of the mass.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Major YouTube and TikTok creators—most without any legal background whatsoever—pumped out hundreds of videos dramatizing each step of the trial.

From The Wall Street Journal May 16, 2026

It is a work of theater, dramatizing feelings, as the earlier Disney staging attempted.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 2026

Why was it important to you to tell this story as a documentary versus dramatizing it?

From Salon Sep. 6, 2024

When Romeo was in fifth grade, he and a friend performed in a school skit, dramatizing a page from her life.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2024

Pap liked to tell Bible stories, often to me, dramatizing them as he sat in our small kitchen.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers




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