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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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Saab was flown back to Venezuela, where Maduro’s regime publicly celebrated his return after spending years portraying him as a diplomat illegally detained by Washington.

— Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 15 Sep. 2026
Cox’s film is biased in Bill’s favor, portraying him as a lapdog whose love for this screeching, spiteful, beady-eyed woman is his great tragic flaw.

— Katie Rife, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026

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However, Batygin advises that astronomers should be cautious in interpreting such findings.

— Micah Hanks, Space.com, 14 Sep. 2026
With generative AI, instead of locating a dashboard, adjusting filters and interpreting several charts, a business leader can increasingly ask a question in plain language.

— Somnath Banerjee, Forbes.com, 14 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

Definition of rendering

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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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At scale, those infrastructure inefficiencies can multiply with thousands of agents performing millions of tasks per day.

— Nicola Sfondrini, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
In posts celebrating his return from the moon and recent career shift, Glover can be seen performing dance routines with his family — but don't bother refreshing your feed to load more any time soon.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2026

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