dramatize

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Recent Examples of dramatize In the face of tragedy, Dess’s narrator memorably dramatizes the anxiety-inducing exigencies of the creative arts, and the need of artists to remain focussed on their craft. The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025 The show dramatizes a series of rapes in Washington and Colorado from 2008 to 2011, focusing on a survivor named Marie (Kaitlyn Dever) and the two detectives trying to solve the case, played brilliantly by Toni Collette and Merritt Wever. Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025 This clever, focus-shifting structure allows showrunners Robbins and Sarah Sutherland to dramatize the most lurid, horror-movie aspects of the story without appearing to endorse one version over another. Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025 No playwright of the modern era has more compassionately — or accurately — dramatized the human consciousness of time, loss and the gap between hope and reality. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dramatize
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  • There’s also the personal draw: Not everyone has experienced a haunting, but complicated family dynamics are depicted so often in media that the setting feels both funny and heart racing.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2025
  • And, for families looking for strong tween and teenage girl protagonists depicted on screen, Rule Breakers is ideal.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 18 Apr. 2025
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  • Jake Elder, Ray Hendrick, Banjo Matthews, Larry Phillips, and Bob Welborn are on this year’s Pioneer Ballot, representing those whose careers began at least 60 years ago.
    Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2025
  • For 2025, the total number of companies for which emissions data was obtained increased from approximately 750 in the previous year to around 900 in the current year, representing a 25% growth.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
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  • From a legal standpoint, the SEC’s February memo could be interpreted as offering regulatory cover for projects like these, provided they are not marketed with profit guarantees or tied to managerial efforts.
    Tonya M. Evans, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • OneNote's Math Assistant can interpret handwritten math equations and solve them for you, though this is available only for Enterprise and Education subscribers to Microsoft 365.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
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  • In the 1998 classic — which saw Lindsay Lohan in her film debut — Quaid portrayed vineyard owner Nick Parker, the father of twins Hallie and Annie (both Lohan), who convince him to reunite with their mother Elizabeth (played by Natasha Richardson).
    Brendan Le, People.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • The Oscar winner portrays a former president leading an investigation in the aftermath of a deadly national cyber attack.
    Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 9 Apr. 2025
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  • Today, digital cameras have rendered round-the-clock observations of the night sky both practical and affordable.
    Patrick M. Shober, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The Alliance would seek to deter and defeat offensive space capabilities, condemn any attempts to render space unusable in international fora, and impose tangible violations that include sanctions—from export controls on the low end to military action on the high end.
    Andrew Hanna, Time, 13 Apr. 2025
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  • Republicans are hoping to raise the nation’s borrowing limit, which caps how much money the Treasury Department can owe to pay the country’s bills, by up to $5 trillion this year as part of a larger package to extend expiring tax cuts enacted through Trump’s signature 2017 tax law.
    Aris Folley, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The Florida Sheriff's Association announced in February that all county jails had signed agreements in compliance with a state law enacted in 2022.
    Julia Ingram, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
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  • But while most saw the moment as a liberating one for women, Horsell saw it as another instance of a female playing top-level sport without the necessary support to perform at her best.
    Asif Burhan, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • From May 8 to 18, orchestras from around the world will convene in Amsterdam to perform the composer and conductor’s complete orchestral works, marathon-style.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2025
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  • How to act during strong winds Take shelter: Immediately go inside a sturdy building during a high wind warning or severe thunderstorm warning and move to an interior room or basement.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Teaching candidates who go through a four-year degree program or a high-quality alternative certification program spend many hours in classrooms watching effective teachers working with students and acting as student teachers themselves.
    Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2025

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