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stylize

[stahy-lahyz] / ˈstaɪ laɪz /
VERB
conventionalize
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STRONG


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The database then served as graphic inspiration, allowing the computer to stylize the shots of the cities where the film takes place, accelerating production that would otherwise have taken years.

From Barron's Mar. 10, 2026

“The Western was born at the beginning of the century with cinema. What Hollywood did was create the American epic and also stylize their reality,” says Almodóvar, speaking alongside Hawke.

From Seattle Times May 23, 2023

“I think we were homing in on Leyendecker because of his ability to stylize, to make characters feel monumental,” he says.

From The Verge Sep. 2, 2021

They stylize things and it was a movie for fun.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2021

Like Ellington, Sorey wrote with his performers in mind, encouraging them to stylize his writing and “make that music yours.”

From New York Times Jan. 7, 2021

He used those reference images for the AI character and transforms them into a stylized person, with a personality, backstory and visual details.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2026

What once would have required a professional production team can now be created and distributed in hours, allowing supporters and campaigns to produce highly stylized portrayals of political figures at scale.

From Salon Jun. 6, 2026

Pratt, wearing a beige suit and a hat with his name stylized like the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times May 31, 2026

Steve Buscemi appeared in a pre-recorded comedic bit, and Eminem surfaced in a stylized role as a fire marshal figure in a sketch that helped drive the episode’s surreal tone.

From Salon May 23, 2026

He talked steadily through the stop and go, freely using his hands to punctuate his speech, the movements subtle but stylized, what I recognized as Anglo.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

And by stylizing the combat, Robbins has made it especially suspenseful and tragic.

From Seattle Times Jun. 12, 2019

Staring into childhood trauma, stylizing it, exploring it from the vantage of maturity in order to understand the construction of the self: Such therapeutic forensics are so common among artists that they’re almost a cliché.

From New York Times Dec. 13, 2018

Williams’s performance is just as confident: you can hear Blige’s gospel–R. & B. stylizing in her harmonies, from the iconic opening, “Boy you should know thaaat,” to its deep-digging pre-chorus, “to have you, hold you, squeeze youuu.”

From The New Yorker Nov. 4, 2016

“It was all about him trying to get me into his thrall with stylizing himself as the victim,” she says.

From The Guardian Oct. 11, 2016

In fact, human culture is very largely the selection, the rearrangement, the tracing of patterns upon, and the stylizing of, what William James called "the random irradiations and resettlements of our ideas."

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter



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