fictionalize
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“Hacks” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” successfully fictionalize such frustrations, as the tribute acknowledges by opening with “Hacks” star Jean Smart’s pre-recorded reflections on the late comedian’s influence.
From Salon ● May 14, 2025
To turn that story into a feature film required Wilson-Cairns and Lindholm to fictionalize certain aspects and change some details.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
There was certainly an exigent need to record, analyze and explain Sept. 11, but it was not at all clear if there was a parallel need to fictionalize Sept. 11.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021
Vanessa’s capacity to romanticize, to fictionalize, runs rampant.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2020
It was a means by which, if not to erase or delete memory, to splice it, to fictionalize it, and to some degree begin again; and yet he judged consciousness to be even less real.
From An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills
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
In “Cast Away,” Francesca de Tores offers a fictionalized account of Selkirk’s tale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
With independent reading, memoirs are big, like “Crying in H Mart” and Sylvia Plath’s fictionalized “The Bell Jar.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
That doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to be learned from true history or its fictionalized version dressed up in dragons and magic.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 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
The narrator decides to write a novel fictionalizing the surveyor’s account, shame be damned—“And yet, let them scorn me as they will, strong traits of their nature have intertwined themselves with mine.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
It also drew a blank when asked for a speech from George Santos, the New York Republican congressman who was caught fictionalizing his past.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
It also drew a blank when asked for a speech from George Santos, the new Republican congressman from New York who was caught fictionalizing his past.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
And it’s uncommon for producers to involve the people whose lives they are fictionalizing.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2023
Their colorful means of fictionalizing history's sea changes help us to better appreciate the people who made it.
From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2022
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