as in realism
realistic depiction in art and literature the novel's degree of verisimilitude is compromised by 18th-century characters who speak in very 21st-century English

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Recent Examples of verisimilitude But what is exceptional here is how Sandler and Apatow pull from their real lives to give the performance verisimilitude. Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 30 July 2025 Bailey’s misfortune and Alonso’s vertical verisimilitude resulted in just one of the Giants’ eight hitless at-bats with runners in scoring position. Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 27 July 2025 Like a film or a novel, architectural restoration manipulates time, reversing, stopping, and tricking it, all in pursuit of verisimilitude. Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 July 2025 And like that Tom Cruise sequel, F1 plays up the fact that authenticity, verisimilitude and a you-are-there-feeling can often make the difference between a fun afternoon at the moving pictures and an immersive adrenaline rush. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for verisimilitude
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realism
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  • The drama, also starring Dustin Hoffman as Bernstein, was a monument to dramatic realism, so serious in its attempt to capture the truth that the production took bags of trash from the real-life Post offices and used the papers on the set.
    Stephen Galloway, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Redford's turn in All the President's Men (1976) as journalist Bob Woodward brought the Watergate scandal to the big screen with gripping realism.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Verisimilitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verisimilitude. Accessed 19 Sep. 2025.

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