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dramatizing

verb

present participle of dramatize

as in depicting

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By all accounts, Katherine was a formidable presence—intellectually engaged, fluent in multiple languages, a guiding force in her children’s lives—and the painting honors that, depicting her reading rather than posing in decorative idleness.

— Carmen Rosenberg-Miller, Artforum, 6 Aug. 2026
Cocobolo rosewood, Dalbergia retusa, is particularly favored for carving ceremonial staffs used in traditional medicine and commercial art depicting tropical plants and animals.

— Chenier Carpio Opua, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026

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But the president's endorsement didn't prevent other Republicans from jumping into the race for a full term representing South Carolina.

— Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Abdul Rashid Yob, who heads a farmers association representing 200,000 members nationwide, pointed to previous negative experience with the herbicide-tolerant Clearfield rice.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

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As the Korean Peninsula swelters through a heat wave, North Korean state media has touted everything from dog-meat soup to chicken broth as ways to cope, while portraying Kim Jong Un as a leader who endures harsh conditions alongside his people.

— Reuters, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2026
Hyde-Smith, first appointed and then elected in 2018, is using a familiar playbook of portraying her Democratic opponent as too liberal for Mississippi.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026

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The effect would have been the opposite in prior years, rendering two successive decreases in citywide homelessness marginally less impressive.

— David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Later, the video shows the gunman looking through the payment window and seeing employees rendering aid to Garibay, according to police narration of the video.

— Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026

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Towns and cities are enacting bans on construction seemingly by the day, including in nearby areas in Washington, out of fears of higher electricity bills, pollution and AI taking their jobs.

— Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Licata and his team spent most of the summer enacting sweeping changes, including two separate reductions in force, closing campuses, changing curriculum models and altering how the district’s lowest-performing schools get access to resources.

— Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Aug. 2026

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And another four people were killed over the last 24 hours in the Russian region of Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, the region’s acting governor Alexandr Shuvayev said Monday.

— Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
The star, Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey, chose the indie as the one to bring him back to acting after a five-year hiatus from live-action productions.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2026

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This compilation, led by contributing editor Ardian Wibisono and contributor Yessar Rosendar, shines a light on top-performing companies with sales above $10 million and below $1 billion.

— Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
The hard drive alone contained nearly 500 gigabytes of files and thousands of explicit videos and images of children, including one roughly nine-minute video of a toddler performing oral sex on a grown man, court documents show.

— Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026

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