fictionalize
Example Sentences
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In its children’s video “Frederick Douglass: The Outspoken Abolitionist,” the fictionalized cartoon of Douglass warns children to “stay away from radicals” who want to change the American system rather than work within it.
From Salon
One of the many great scenes in The Big Short, which fictionalizes famed investor Michael Burry’s bet against the U.S. housing market, involves a tower of wooden blocks.
From Barron's
Eddie Glaude Jr. slumps a bit as he rubs his forehead, the universal sign of being overwhelmed by the flood of partisan nonsense Aaron Tang fictionalizes in “Breaking the Deadlock: Truth Under Fire.”
From Salon
Orlean is one of the New Yorker’s most high-profile writers, having been portrayed by Meryl Streep in “Adaptation,” a heavily fictionalized version of her book “The Orchid Thief.”
From Los Angeles Times
“I have a fictionalized version of my recovery” because people want so many details of what happened—and want a happy ending, he wrote.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
