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Recent Examples of documentary
Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 23 May 2026
Welles and Varda ignored common perceptions that put fiction and nonfiction filmmaking into separate and unequal categories, with documentary occupying a lower rank.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 May 2026
Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Meanwhile, Johnson has built a reputation for blending documentary-style realism with offbeat historical and media stories.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 11 May 2026
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Noun
Shirilla's case is profiled in the Netflix documentary The Crash released this month.
—Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 23 May 2026
Welles and Varda ignored common perceptions that put fiction and nonfiction filmmaking into separate and unequal categories, with documentary occupying a lower rank.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 23 May 2026
Adjective
Ritchie first dispatched a French film crew to shoot second-unit, documentary-style footage at the 1978 festival.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Meanwhile, Johnson has built a reputation for blending documentary-style realism with offbeat historical and media stories.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 11 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for documentary
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Yet the docudrama delivers several of the Broadway season’s most striking scenes all the same.—
Thomas Floyd,
Washington Post,
24 Apr. 2026
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The Voice of Hind Rajab Kaouther Ben Hania’s heart-wrenching docudrama is a marvel—a meticulous retelling of the true story of Hind Rajab, the six-year-old Palestinian girl who was trapped inside a car under fire in northern Gaza in January of 2024.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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For her latest novel, the Irish writer has crafted another historical family epic rooted in tragedy, this time inspired by the landscape of her home country.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
24 May 2026
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Users upload financial datasets and forecasting models into Claude Projects and uses prompts to analyze quarterly data, update forecasts and track historical reasoning.—
Gene Marks,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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Patience and even guarantees, features that are often central to preventing the outbreak of conflict, had no place in such a scenario.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 May 2026
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But even with these advanced features, an Uber executive is sounding the alarm on the rideshare company’s AI spending.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
26 May 2026
Adjective
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The scarcity of factual support for the claims hasn’t been lost on technologists and encryption experts.—
Dan Goodin,
ArsTechnica,
22 May 2026
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On a factual task, in domains like law or medicine, disagreement is real but bounded.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Here's what to know about the real-life case and how accurately the film depicts it.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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The prominence of beef in Texas has also created a subindustry that showcases and preserves it, which is reflected in film and broader cultural storytelling about the state.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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Pee-Wee as Himself, the 2025 Emmy award winner for best documentary or nonfictional special, is also among the nominees.—
Brande Victorian,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Apr. 2026
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That delirious excess befits the essence of Lapid’s method, which is a fusion of fiction with indigestibly and irreducibly nonfictional elements.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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The bonus featurettes will also be available on the 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD copies of The Bride!—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2026
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The film will feature an exclusive making-of featurette offering a glimpse behind the curtain.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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This lush new exception—a literal urban oasis and Ontario’s only LEED Gold Certified Hotel takes sustainability seriously—is distinguished by its biophilic design, impressive conservation programs, and real community mindedness.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 May 2026
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Between archival footage and photos of Lennon and Ono, there are dozens of jarring, ugly visuals, seemingly generated by entering Ono and Lennon’s dialogue into a machine that spits out bizarrely literal interpretations of text.—
Rachel Handler,
Vulture,
22 May 2026
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“Documentary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/documentary. Accessed 29 May. 2026.
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