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as in theatre
the public performance of plays
he has been interested in drama from the first time he ever saw a play
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as in play
a written work in which the story is told through speech and action that is intended to be acted out on stage
wrote a police drama that really captured the speech of cops and criminals
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Recent Examples of drama
Written by Joe Robert Cole (Black Panther), the thriller drama follows Titus Crown (Dìrísù), the first Black sheriff in a small Bible Belt county.
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
The Cowboys retook the lead with a field goal in overtime, but there was more drama to come as Jordan Love, who threw 31-of-43 for 337 yards and three touchdowns on the night, orchestrated one final drive in search of the winning touchdown.
—George Ramsay, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
The show, which followed a crooked New Mexican lawyer, played by Bob Odenkirk, was an archly funny drama, shot partly in gritty black-and-white.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
The Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson drama has been bad for a while.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 29 Sep. 2025
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2025
The Cowboys retook the lead with a field goal in overtime, but there was more drama to come as Jordan Love, who threw 31-of-43 for 337 yards and three touchdowns on the night, orchestrated one final drive in search of the winning touchdown.
—George Ramsay, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
The show, which followed a crooked New Mexican lawyer, played by Bob Odenkirk, was an archly funny drama, shot partly in gritty black-and-white.
—Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
The Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson drama has been bad for a while.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drama
Noun
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The play itself, however, is a mess.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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The women’s team starts with 12 non-conference bouts and kicks off conference play by hosting the Memphis Tigers on New Year’s Eve.—
Hunter Bailey,
Charlotte Observer,
25 Sep. 2025
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After all, exits and grand finales are part and parcel with any theater and therefore any showgirl's life, and could be purely symbolic in nature.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Sep. 2025
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With many independent theaters going out of business, many films that would not normally play in the multiplexes now have to play in the multiplexes.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
28 Sep. 2025
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The iconic musical played at the Bellevue for three years in the mid-1960s.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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The performers in the touring casts of Broadway musicals often follow strikingly similar paths from high school to hit show — hours spent practicing show tunes with vocal coaches, years of dance classes, roles in a dozen amateur musical theater productions.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
21 Sep. 2025
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This stage would also see humanitarian aid flow immediately to the desperate population in Gaza.—
Asher Kaufman,
The Conversation,
30 Sep. 2025
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The first steps have been hard, but with a solid system and team buy-in, early-stage AI implementation is already a huge productivity booster.—
Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
29 Sep. 2025
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Yes, House of Guinness is based on the real-life history of the Guinness family, though, as is true of many dramatizations, certain liberties have been taken.—
Randall Colburn,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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Filmak, CinePoint, Babel Doc) Plaza’s feature hybridizes documentary investigation and dramatization as two researchers probe the fates of Spaniards deported to Nazi camps.—
Callum McLennan,
Variety,
22 Sep. 2025
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Tesla had a first-mover advantage in China in 2013, leveraging the government’s support of EVs with subsidies and incentives and its production base and opening a gigafactory in Shanghai in 2019.—
Rebecca A. Fannin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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Cooperations are one key strategy for the future of the streamer in Spain, Fábregas signaled, calling co-productions a new emerging model and mentioning two upcoming co-productions that have yet to be announced.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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Last year, comedy vlogger Nathan Graham—whose YouTube channel Unspeakable Studios boasts nearly three and a half million subscribers—recorded a video of the entire process.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Sep. 2025
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An early success was Matt Spicer’s dark comedy Ingrid Goes West (acquired via CAA).—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Sep. 2025
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Flags typically fly at half-staff after national tragedies or deaths of government officials, military members or other first responders.—
Ridah Syed,
jsonline.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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The gulf between who Nelson really might be and how an aggregate of cultures—Colombian, American, capitalist, masculine—has molded him is the source of the play’s tragedy.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Drama.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drama. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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