fictionalize

Example Sentences

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A fictionalized version of the journalist and critic Renata Adler appears in the novel as a reporter who went undercover, at great personal risk, to report on conditions in the South.

From New York Times

Williams wrote a nostalgic, lullaby-like piano theme for the film’s lightly fictionalized version of mother and son.

From Los Angeles Times

How seriously did I mistake bald propaganda for fictionalized truth?

From Washington Post

Fans believed the novels were thinly veiled accounts of actual spy stories when, in fact, they took place in fictionalized worlds with just enough inside details to feel real.

From Washington Post

With that kind of rich material, and so much more — the obligatory failed coup, the imprisonment, the comeback, the duped populace, the Marxism, the beret for chrissakes — Chávez screams out for a fictionalized rendering.

From Washington Post