fictionalize
verb (used with object)
semifictionalized
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a word derived from
fictionalize.
Example Sentences
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A novel isn’t a play, but Akhtar, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Disgraced,” has written a book that enfolds a semifictionalized memoir of a Pakistani-American playwright into a sweeping sociopolitical synthesis of America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2020
Its success comes in part from its historical, open-world setting, a semifictionalized United States circa 1899.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2019
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in a crackling translation by John Lambert, “Limonov” is written in a galloping third person and based largely on Mr. Limonov’s semifictionalized memoirs.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2014
