dramatized

past tense of dramatize

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatized
Verb
  • That's depicted in a disturbing, if somewhat inscrutable, scene.
    Esther Zuckerman, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The beginnings of it are depicted in true disaster movie style, with ominous music and a collapsing electric pylon that causes a faulty cable to fall to the ground.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Carey’s accolade also represented another full-circle moment for the chanteuse.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The trio represented half of Jamaica’s track and field medal haul from the Olympics last August.
    Liam Tharme, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • He was often portrayed as a DOGE patsy, perhaps even a fool.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Mark-Paul Gosselaar portrayed Peter Bash, the more grounded and level-headed half of the Franklin & Bash duo.
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • All of this is rendered with stunning ease by his VFX team, in scenes that look like a news bulletin from the apocalypse.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Here, Ne Zha 2 succeeds wildly; locales such as a heavenly city made entirely of jade and a towering, bamboo-verdant waterfall are rendered with genuinely beautiful texture and detail.
    Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Artau said in his Senate disclosure form that no one involved in the selection process discussed pending cases or legal issues with him in a way that could be interpreted as seeking assurances about his position.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The victory comes months after CBS said the show would be canceled for financial reasons, though many interpreted it to be a political decision to secure federal approval for its merger with Skydance.
    Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The veteran has at times performed for the Padres, but his latest clunker — Cortes yielded six runs over 2 1/3 innings — continued an alarming trend for a rotation that has gone nine consecutive games without an outing of more than five innings.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Paramedics performed life-saving measures on the boy, but couldn't save him; he was pronounced dead at the scene.
    KC Baker, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Kentucky's persistent felony offender (PFO) law, enacted in 1974 and expanded in 1976, allows for enhanced sentences for repeat felony offenders.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The World’s Highest Incarceration Rate Since the state of exception was enacted — and since extended more than 39 times — nearly 90,000 people have been detained.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the end, Frizer was found to have acted in self-defense and officially pardoned by the Queen.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Meyer has also appeared on Designated Survivor (2018), The Fix (2019), and Good Girls (2021), and acted in films including Changeland (2019), Unpregnant (2020), and The Enormity of Life (2021).
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Dramatized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramatized. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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