fictionalized
Example Sentences
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Cipriani has fictionalized the two men’s dealings, then spread “false and salacious lies to extract a massive payday.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
“Hamnet,” from director Chloé Zhao, spins a family’s brutal loss into a fictionalized origin story for Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
Most of us will recognize the fictionalized version of Boesky, Gordon Gekko in the movie “Wall Street,” telling us that greed is good.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2025
Orlean is one of the New Yorker’s most high-profile writers, having been portrayed by Meryl Streep in “Adaptation,” a heavily fictionalized version of her book “The Orchid Thief.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025
Mother tells me you have given up on the tribal art book and are pleased with this one, a sort of fictionalized travelogue?
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
