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dramatizing

verb

present participle of dramatize

as in depicting

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Also dated to the 1st century, the 10-square-meter (108-square-foot) fresco is as detailed as the mosaic, with scenes depicting a walled city, with a port entrance gate, roads, a theater and a temple.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
The resolution also encourages teaching about the trade-offs that arise from depicting a spherical planet on a flat map.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of depicting

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This year, homeowners associations representing more than 10,000 property owners filed a class action lawsuit against the Southern Nevada Water Authority in an attempt to block it.

— Paul Rogers, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026
Round-trip latency could fall from the microsecond range to several hundred nanoseconds, representing a reduction of up to an order of magnitude.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of representing

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Footage from the event showed an actress portraying Nikki screaming at and startling guests.

— Denis Akbari, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Monroe Mayor Robert Burns, a Republican, seized on Newsom’s visit in a post on X, portraying the California governor’s appearance as evidence that Monroe, and North Carolina, have become politically important enough to draw national attention.

— Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2026

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But as this example illustrates, interpreting the benchmark scores can be technically complex, presenting a challenge for companies that want to show off the results to the public in a digestible format.

— Emily Forlini, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2026
Studying the effects of this fluctuating luminescence on interpreting gesture may tell us whether speech has significant benefits around an evening campfire.

— Mike McRae September 02, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2026

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And with the aforementioned outgoings, the Uruguay international is also probably Tottenham’s best player in the air now, rendering him near-undroppable.

— Elias Burke, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
But the bigger issue is that Tenzing keeps its title character and his closest ally (to say nothing of all the smaller characters around them) at a reverent distance, rendering them in broad strokes rather than fine shading.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

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Tomlin, Fonda and Parton played a trio of secretaries who took revenge on their sexist boss by kidnapping him and enacting changes in the workplace in his name.

— Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026
The appeal came less than 24 hours after Talwani issued a 14-day temporary restraining order blocking parts of USPS’s new rule enacting new guardrails on mail-in voting in the name of election security.

— Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of enacting

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And yet 20 years ago, the haka’s future was in doubt — assailed by protests from rival teams that New Zealand gained an unfair advantage from performing it as the final action before kick-off in a Test match.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Die schöne Müllerin was conceived for a male voice and the protagonist is a young man, so Anderson would not have contemplated performing the complete cycle.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026

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