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fictionalise

  • a variation of fictionalize.
    fictionalize
    verb (used with object)
    to make into fiction; give a somewhat imaginative or fictional version of.

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So where did Samuel draw the line with how much to stick to history and how much to fictionalise?

From BBC Oct. 25, 2021

It feels difficult to fictionalise, and poeticise, apparently, in ways that don’t simply descend into cliché.

From The Guardian Feb. 26, 2016

So why do we fictionalise robots in our own image and then have them betray us?

From BBC Oct. 6, 2015

Instead he lived it – was living it, in fact, when he had the idea with his wife, Kika Markham, that he might fictionalise their own desperate situation.

From The Guardian Sep. 20, 2014

Does every travel writer do that – embellish, dramatise, even fictionalise?

From Salon Jun. 25, 2012