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fictionize

[fik-shuh-nahyz] / ˈfɪk ʃəˌnaɪz /
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fictionalize
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British Author Rex Warner, an old hand at translating Caesar, has set out to fictionize him.

From Time Magazine Archive

"It's impossible to fictionize Germany," laughed Mrs. Rotherick.

From The Enchanted Canyon by Honoré Morrow

Lania, an exile from the Reich who sticks close to the news, includes in his novel a fictionized account of how Hugo Stinnes cornered industrial Germany during the inflation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mason Locke Weems was an itinerant parson and book agent, pioneer in fictionized biography.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thomas Mann is less known in this country for Death in Venice, a collection of long short stories, than for his two-volume "naturalistic" Buddenbrooks, and The Magic Mountain, another lengthy fictionized philosophy.

From Time Magazine Archive

As beautiful as ever but less numb than usual, she achieves the difficult feat of making Katrin seem more a human being than a fictionized heroine.

From Time Magazine Archive

The chronicle, little fictionized, of a trail drive to Kansas.

From Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations by J. Frank (James Frank) Dobie

If fictionizing in prose, he writes with brief orange-hued flashes of liquid ether; each of short, all but, brief span.

From Original Letters and Biographic Epitomes by J. Atwood Slater




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