- present participle of capitalize.
capitalizing
Example Sentences
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In musicalizing Lynn Nottage’s play of the same title, Ricky Ian Gordon, working with a text by Nottage herself, wants more for Esther than a quick dance and a slick tune.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022
Preparing the text has been a process of “distillation, musicalizing some phrasings and versifying some lines.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2020
Even while musicalizing Shakespeare for the Public Theater, she is writing her own show, about the women’s suffrage movement, backed by one of the lead producers of “Hamilton.”
From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2018
Some of the lines are genuine LBJ, but “the bulk of the language here is mine,” the playwright says, his native Texas twang musicalizing the conversation.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2016
But if musicalizing Sunset Boulevard does not detract, it does not add much either.
From Time Magazine Archive
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