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fictionalization

American  
[fik-shuhn-uhl-ahyz-ay-shuhn] / ˌfɪk ʃən əl aɪzˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

  • fictionalizations
    plural
  1. something created through fictionalizing.

  2. the act or process of fictionalizing.


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For his 1970 novel, “Bomber,” a fictionalization of a Royal Air Force raid over Germany in 1943, he spoke to survivors and listened to wartime tape recordings to get the dialogue right.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

The scouting team for a Shinkai film will photograph real places, and those become the basis for these representations that are the most gorgeous fictionalization of that place possible.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023

The graceful and mostly understated Osborne is the principal reason to watch this corny fictionalization of a turning point in American professional sports history.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023

Banks’ most ambitious novel is a fictionalization of the life of abolitionist John Brown, who led an 1859 slave revolt at Harpers Ferry and was executed shortly thereafter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2023

One morning in August, Cameron Crowe — who made the coming-of-age movie, a gentle fictionalization of his days writing for Rolling Stone in the early 1970s — was back at that ramp.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022

Such a telling would probably trigger the supposed guardians of historical accuracy to an even greater extent than Morgan’s fictionalizations already do.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

Léonard’s specialty is “autofiction,” thinly veiled fictionalizations of his life.

From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2019

Are there any fictionalizations of India, particularly its Mughal history, that you looked at?

From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2013

Washington: Behind Closed Doors, for all its fictionalizations, presented a symbolically credible portrait of moral chaos in Nixon's White House.

From Time Magazine Archive

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