dramas

noun

plural of drama
as in plays
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 dramas Young adult dramas have always been pivotal to Netflix’s programming. — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026 Serban is known for starring in Alone at My Wedding, selected for the ACID lineup at the Cannes Film Festival, and dramas Gipsy Queen and Housekeeping for Beginners. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026 All your zillennial and millennial friends, now adults with car insurance and vigorous SPF routines, have been watching cozy, faintly dissociative teen dramas in order to forget their troubles. — Daisy Jones, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2026 Green made a presentation, now rather famous among his colleagues, that outlined his meta-layered vision, complete with shots of Michael Mann’s The Insider and stuffed with references to other legal dramas like The Verdict and Erin Brockovich. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026 The actor’s other daytime dramas included a guest role in three episodes of CBS’ As the World Turns in 1978 and 1979. — Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 Over the course of 14 seasons, the show followed the daily dramas of four married couples living in a coastal suburb of Los Angeles. — Makena Gera, PEOPLE, 6 Aug. 2026 And even as life moves relentlessly on, with challenges at work, ongoing family battles and new friendship dramas, something keeps pulling this flawed, funny pair back into each other’s orbits. — Matt Minton, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026 Sweeney has become one of Hollywood’s most prominent — and occasionally controversial — young stars while taking on projects that ran the gamut from indie dramas and horror flicks to a Marvel movie and the blockbuster thriller The Housemaid. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramas
  1. plays
  2. musicals
  3. comedies
  4. dramatizations
  5. works
Noun
  • Musty is a great passer who can hit open lanes and has the patience to pull up and make plays.
    — Corey Pronman, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • If this basin is not developed, one of Latin America’s premier shale oil plays will be lost.
    — Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of plays
Noun
  • The school commissions Broadway writers to pen musicals for students each year and recently has added in a new summer musical, where commercial producers can workshop and develop shows.
    — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 25 May 2026
  • Founded in 2007 by Gary and Erin Lewis, the company produces stage musicals year-round, as well as musical readings and youth drama education programs.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2026
Definition of musicals
Noun
  • The Comeback co-creator Michael Patrick King notes that workplace comedies were initially conceived as a cost-effective way to make TV.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026
  • On Day 1, Cindy Holland indicated that Paramount+ would not be doing original comedies, relying on next-day CBS sitcoms.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of comedies
Noun
  • With each new season, there has been backlash to creative choices made in the dramatizations of these true crime stories.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Today, the public largely remembers Holmes through magazine covers, courtroom sketches, documentaries, and television dramatizations.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of dramatizations
Noun
  • New York — Artificial intelligence is a game-changing technology that’s already transforming how the world lives and works.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The institution’s collection houses six monumental works by Mora (1866–1936), an innovative artist who has grown to the status of regional hero.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of works

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