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stylize

[stahy-lahyz] / ˈstaɪ laɪz /
VERB
conventionalize
Synonyms
Antonyms
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

I don’t mean books about autism, but, rather, novels that include characters who have autism or that use symptoms of the disorder as a metaphor or plot device, or to stylize language.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2019

I take only my favorite shots and I tape them to my wall and then go through them, or stylize them in the way I like it.

From The Verge ● Sep. 14, 2018

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

From Slate ● Mar. 15, 2018

I found the second act less rewarding, and inconclusive, as the play becomes more fantastical and stylized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Dressed in a gray T-shirt, dark collared shirt and leather pants, RM’s hair is a light burnt sienna color matching the fur of the stylized tiger on the screen behind him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

There was a stylized poster of Che Guevara celebrating a little-known holiday on Oct.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

Like most Maya art, the portrait is too stylized to regard as a naturalistic rendering.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Parker and Stone take that personal license and run with it, stylizing their own experience instead of trivializing someone else’s.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 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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