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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatizing
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By depicting the specific shade of green in the Café Vida awning to the correct number of spokes in the rose window at the Community United Methodist Church, Dal Bello hoped to bring the places that colored his childhood alive.—
Sam Mulick,
Daily News,
29 May 2026 -
Carney is a moralist, a filmmaker of fidelity—and of renunciation, depicting the romantic near-misses and what-ifs that his characters leave behind.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
29 May 2026
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Molitor, Morris and Mauer, representing the Twins, will be honored in the order of their elections to the hall, followed by Stone.—
Charley Walters,
Twin Cities,
30 May 2026
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Attorneys representing the class, Deborah Dixon and Charlotte Barone, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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Pratt has been portraying the city as a lethal hellscape.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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Both of Cook’s pregnancies were written into Criminal Minds, with her sons portraying her children on the series.—
Jacqueline Weiss,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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But interpreting those experiments requires massive computer simulations, which are extremely computationally expensive.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
26 May 2026
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The campaign sparked backlash online, with many consumers interpreting the messaging as having undertones of eugenics.—
Angela Velasquez,
Footwear News,
26 May 2026
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The r on my laptop keyboard, worn to breaking, will soon fall off, rendering that laptop lifeless.—
Wyatt Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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Of course, that club won the World Series, rendering Crane’s silence a footnote in a superb season.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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Brookline, a wealthy suburb of Boston, was the first, enacting its own version in 2021.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2026
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Meanwhile, San Diego for years was on the cutting edge of facilitating construction of accessory dwelling units or ADUs, enacting perhaps the most permissive rules in California.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 May 2026
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The president acting alone can’t change that.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
31 May 2026
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That’s why the original voices of legacy filmmakers are worth protecting, even when some of that group’s AI advocates seem hell-bent on acting against the industry’s long-term best interests.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
31 May 2026
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The mother spends her waking hours working on other people’s farms and performing tasks the neighbors prefer not to do themselves.—
The Know,
Denver Post,
31 May 2026
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As good as both teams’ hitters have been performing this season, these two pitchers were throwing at a level that even major-league scouts could appreciate.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2026
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“Dramatizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dramatizing. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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