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The oil boom next door in Guyana has dramatized how much Venezuela needs outside expertise and investment to revitalize its own oil industry.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Now, the novel coronavirus crisis has dramatized the need for a fully functional — if not expanded — U.S.

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2020

By undertaking actions at military facilities, it has dramatized the disconnect between the secrecy of the U.S. nuclear program and its prominence in the federal budget.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 19, 2019

In an afterword, Atkinson explains that the sort of covert operation she has dramatized actually did take place.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2018

"Black Masks" is the study of a pathological case which Andreyev has dramatized after the fashion of de Maupassant's "The Horla."

From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Persky, Serge