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novelize

[nov-uh-lahyz] / ˈnɒv əˌlaɪz /
VERB
fictionalize
Synonyms


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“And we’re in this beautiful golden age of television where we can novelize a TV show.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2020

Lynn Potter knew she had enough for a gripping read and had long planned to novelize the results by working off the letters.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2016

Wallace doesn’t simply set a scene and novelize his characters into facile life; rather, he makes an almost metaphysical commitment to see reality through their eyes.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2016

Reporter Miller had aimed to novelize the waterfront characters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two years after “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” hit theaters, Quentin Tarantino has novelized his Oscar-winning movie, calling the result a “complete rethinking” of the story.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2021

Keneally’s book is a novelized version of a true story: how German industrialist and Nazi named Oskar Schindler managed to save 1,200 Jews from transportation to concentration camps.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2018

That tale has been embroidered, dramatized, and novelized over the centuries by writers from Ovid—who in one poem has Sappho abjectly renouncing her gay past—to Erica Jong, in her 2003 novel “Sappho’s Leap.”

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 9, 2015

At the height of the Cold War, it was thrown into crisis by the exposure of a string of Soviet double agents — events gloomily novelized in John Le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2012

What should we think of Homer, had he sung his impressions of the ancient Egyptians? or of Thackeray, had he novelized the life of the Babylonians?

From Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton

“That was what my mother did,” she said, referring to the act of novelizing one’s life.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2022

Obliquity has led to greater success in novelizing the sixteenth President than have attempts to see him from the inside out and through his own point of view.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017

One is that while middle-aged women of pious persuasion are novelizing as hugely as ever, adolescent girl threnodists have fallen into a decline.

From Time Magazine Archive

Such bombast raises a problem inherent in all historical novelizing.

From Time Magazine Archive

IV The novelizing of plays is frequent and profitable in America in these early years of the twentieth century; and it had been attempted infrequently even in the seventeenth century.

From A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews


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