fictionalize
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Shadows of Spielberg’s filmography loom large over “Disclosure Day”: the inclination to revisit and fictionalize childhood from “The Fabelmans,” the tests of empathy in “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” and, of course, all the aliens.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
To turn that story into a feature film required Wilson-Cairns and Lindholm to fictionalize certain aspects and change some details.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
There was certainly an exigent need to record, analyze and explain Sept. 11, but it was not at all clear if there was a parallel need to fictionalize Sept. 11.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021
Vanessa’s capacity to romanticize, to fictionalize, runs rampant.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2020
It was a means by which, if not to erase or delete memory, to splice it, to fictionalize it, and to some degree begin again; and yet he judged consciousness to be even less real.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
Weightier than any of that is the ever-more involuted mystery enveloping the real Elizabeth Short, whose murder has inspired fictionalized homages before De Palma’s movie and since, but has yet to be satisfactorily rendered onscreen.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Prosecutors allege that Matar was motivated by a fatwa that Ayatollah Khomeini, then leader of Iran, issued in 1989 following Rushdie's depiction of a fictionalized Prophet Muhammad in his novel "The Satanic Verses."
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
In “Cast Away,” Francesca de Tores offers a fictionalized account of Selkirk’s tale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Shell has maintained Cipriani fictionalized the two men’s dealings, then spread “false and salacious lies to extract a massive payday.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
"You want me to play a fictionalized version of my own ex-boyfriend?"
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
The narrator decides to write a novel fictionalizing the surveyor’s account, shame be damned—“And yet, let them scorn me as they will, strong traits of their nature have intertwined themselves with mine.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
It also drew a blank when asked for a speech from George Santos, the New York Republican congressman who was caught fictionalizing his past.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
It also drew a blank when asked for a speech from George Santos, the new Republican congressman from New York who was caught fictionalizing his past.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
The Book Review podcast: Alice Elliott Dark discusses her new novel and Katherine Chen talks about fictionalizing Joan of Arc.
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2022
That story followed the rise of Viking Ragnar Lodbrok from farmer to king, fictionalizing the exploits of a real figure from history.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2022
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