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Recent Examples of dramatize
Nothing dramatizes the human comedy with more precision than the sound of a happily narrow mind retorting to the wider environment.
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Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Austin Kelley’s debut novel The Fact Checker dramatizes these questions of fact, truth, and provability as the protagonist checks an article about the Union Square Greenmarket.
—Isabel Clara Ruehl
june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza has teamed with Civil War and Ex Machina director Alex Garland to make Warfare, which dramatizes the day in 2006 a team of Navy SEALs, Mendoza among them, entered an apartment building in Ramadi province, Iraq, on a treacherous surveillance mission.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 June 2025
Fares Fares is a forceful actor who dramatizes George’s movie-star vanity from the inside out.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2025
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Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Austin Kelley’s debut novel The Fact Checker dramatizes these questions of fact, truth, and provability as the protagonist checks an article about the Union Square Greenmarket.
—Isabel Clara Ruehl
june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza has teamed with Civil War and Ex Machina director Alex Garland to make Warfare, which dramatizes the day in 2006 a team of Navy SEALs, Mendoza among them, entered an apartment building in Ramadi province, Iraq, on a treacherous surveillance mission.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 June 2025
Fares Fares is a forceful actor who dramatizes George’s movie-star vanity from the inside out.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatize
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His work, in turn, was a bronze version of a colorful fountain made of cement, also depicting the three kneeling women, and which, from 1931 to 1965, had been on display at the center of Morelia.—
Eric Adler
August 17,
Kansas City Star,
17 Aug. 2025
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Meta’s guidelines declared that depicting adults, including the elderly, receiving punches or kicks was acceptable.—
Douglas B. Laney,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
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More states are waiting in the wings, said John Hewitt, senior vice president of state affairs for the Consumer Brands Association, which represents major food companies such as Kraft Heinz.—
Cheyenne Haslett,
ABC News,
7 Aug. 2025
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Board member Mike Goodman, who represents the San Tan Valley area, was thrilled with the unofficial results.—
Maritza Dominguez,
AZCentral.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Many have interpreted this deal, in particular the 10% stake, as a back-end way for ESPN to guarantee proximity to its most valuable content partner.—
Eben Novy-Williams,
Sportico.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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The brain activates visuospatial processing zones and interprets content as physically present.—
Olya Osokina,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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American leaders and commentators often portrayed international adversaries in unflattering and discursive brushstrokes.—
Time,
Time,
8 Aug. 2025
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South Park went after Homeland Security on its social media pages and made Vice President JD Vance a key target in the latest episode, portraying him toddler-sized next to Trump.—
Joshua Sammons,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Aug. 2025
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Across the collection, the complex and multifaceted experiences of trans people of color are rendered vividly, and the pieces urge political action in the present while offering a beacon of hope for a more just future.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
12 Aug. 2025
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Market Concentration: Heavy dependence on the Canadian market renders TLRY vulnerable to regulatory changes and competitive pressures within a single jurisdiction.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act enacted last month jeopardizes the financial stability of the city in the coming years, state officials and budget experts say.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
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Some updates are needed Much has changed in the decades since Congress wrote the law, but Congress has not enacted updates to keep up.—
Anna Kirkland,
The Conversation,
15 Aug. 2025
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When culture starts performing alignment instead of living it, most companies reach for fixes: tighter messaging, new values, more playbooks.—
Vibhas Ratanjee,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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The piece was to be performed at a church near McVeigh's execution site in Terre Haute, Indiana, then recorded and played on the radio so that McVeigh would have a chance to hear it.—
Nate Anderson,
ArsTechnica,
14 Aug. 2025
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Ukraine launched multiple drone strikes into Russia overnight Thursday, damaging several apartment buildings in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and injuring more than a dozen civilians, according to acting governor of the region, Yuri Slyusar.—
Bradford Betz,
FOXNews.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Sean Duffy, the acting administrator of NASA for a little more than a month, has vowed to make the United States great in space.—
Eric Berger,
ArsTechnica,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Dramatize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramatize. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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