Meaning of fictionalize in English
(Definition of fictionalize from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of fictionalize
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Although the main topic of talk in "today in history" is historical and factual, these exchanges contain some historically fictionalized and gratuitous elements.
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In order to protect confidentiality, the case histories in this report are fictionalized composites based on multiple interviews with multiple informants.
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Also, the development of knowledge about kinematics itself is not a story of internalization: such a claim would fictionalize the history of science.
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Even when fictionalized, their accounts have the value of evidence.
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Bukowski's attitude toward learning, despite his attempt to fictionalize himself otherwise, is clear-cut.
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Since it is fictionalized and one of few sources on her life and work, one cannot simply set it aside and look up the real thing.
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The associated utopian tales not only provided a dynamic vehicle for fictionalizing concerns about an increasingly urbanized humanity, they also examined the social implications of evolution itself.
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However, in most cases, many aspects of their life are fictionalized.
The script, as in many such films, was heavily fictionalized.
Although the scene was somewhat fictionalized, it did correctly show the active vent on the side of the volcano rather that the summit.
The journey has been fictionalized and mythologized in literature since the 19th century.
At the urging of others, she prepared them for publication, slightly altering and fictionalizing them.
The following dramatization includes time compression and composite and fictionalized characters and incidents.
The names, dates and people mentioned in the books are true, but much of the content of the books is, by necessity, fictionalized.
Whether these were somewhat fictionalized or not, the chat established the young lady as an individual.
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