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stylize

[stahy-lahyz] / ˈstaɪ laɪz /
VERB
conventionalize
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STRONG


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The database then served as graphic inspiration, allowing the computer to stylize the shots of the cities where the film takes place, accelerating production that would otherwise have taken years.

From Barron's Mar. 10, 2026

“The Western was born at the beginning of the century with cinema. What Hollywood did was create the American epic and also stylize their reality,” says Almodóvar, speaking alongside Hawke.

From Seattle Times May 23, 2023

It comes down to cinema’s status as an art, meant to stylize rather than simply reproduce reality.

From New York Times Apr. 18, 2023

Unfortunately, you can’t stylize your captions — you’re pretty much stuck with what you get, which tends to be white lettering on a slightly darkened rectangle.

From The Verge Jul. 9, 2021

In the future, we may be able to stylize the interior with our own lighting, videoscapes, and soundtracks.

From Slate Mar. 15, 2018

Josep Maria Subirachs’s stylized sculptures, commissioned in 1986 for the church’s western wall, are more legible.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

He used those reference images for the AI character and transforms them into a stylized person, with a personality, backstory and visual details.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2026

That symbolism has only become more visible in recent months amid renewed attention on gold Trump statues, AI-generated heroic imagery and other forms of highly stylized political branding circulating online.

From Salon May 10, 2026

Kpler, a stylized evocation of 17th-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler, was founded in 2014 by François Cazor and Jean Maynier, who had both previously worked in banking and trading.

From The Wall Street Journal May 3, 2026

He talked steadily through the stop and go, freely using his hands to punctuate his speech, the movements subtle but stylized, what I recognized as Anglo.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

There’s a little Scorsese and a little Ritchie in his fleet-footed stylizing, which whisks audiences through a caper and its attendant double-crosses with a roving, restless camera.

From The Guardian Mar. 27, 2020

It’s stylizing a thing that, at some unconscious level, you’re afraid of.

From New York Times Aug. 29, 2019

And by stylizing the combat, Robbins has made it especially suspenseful and tragic.

From Seattle Times Jun. 12, 2019

Williams’s performance is just as confident: you can hear Blige’s gospel–R. & B. stylizing in her harmonies, from the iconic opening, “Boy you should know thaaat,” to its deep-digging pre-chorus, “to have you, hold you, squeeze youuu.”

From The New Yorker Nov. 4, 2016

In fact, human culture is very largely the selection, the rearrangement, the tracing of patterns upon, and the stylizing of, what William James called "the random irradiations and resettlements of our ideas."

From Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann



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