fictionalized
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His interest in Murashige, meanwhile, a real-life tactician fictionalized here as an under-the-gun leader presented with myriad problems, poses the question: Did Kurosawa make a film about directing films?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Prosecutors allege that Matar was motivated by a fatwa that Ayatollah Khomeini, then leader of Iran, issued in 1989 following Rushdie's depiction of a fictionalized Prophet Muhammad in his novel "The Satanic Verses."
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Perrotti said the scene is fictionalized but mirrors a similar experience they had early in their own relationship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Before this, Irving had begun his project of myth-building with a mischievously fictionalized history of New York published under the name Diedrich Knickerbocker—a pseudonym that lives on with the city’s basketball team.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
And though Grove would eventually release a fictionalized version called The Years of Fear, the original historical account was never published.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
