dramatizes

verb

present tense third-person singular of dramatize
as in depicts

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  1. depicts
  2. represents
  3. portrays
  4. interprets
  5. renders
  6. enacts
  7. performs
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  • The three-and-a-half-foot-tall marble fragment depicts only the emperor’s torso, adorned in an elegant bronze cuirass.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The show’s take on Holmes depicts the facts to interrogate the person.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of depicts
Verb
  • Rojas pointed to Chawpi Runakuna, Ecuador’s first Indigenous LGBTQ collective, which represents several communities in the country.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026
  • That includes $150,000 from Service Employees International Union Local 721, which represents thousands of city workers and has negotiated an employment contract with Bass and other city leaders.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of represents
Verb
  • Guitarricadelafuente portrays Sebastián, the focus of the film’s central timeline set during the Spanish Civil War.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The spinoff, which portrays Gibbs as an up-and-comer in the early ’90s, has intimately involved Harmon as an executive producer and narrator, but not so much an on-screen presence until a present-day flash-forward story was added for season 3.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of portrays
Verb
  • Spring 2027 will offer complete looks of how Walsh interprets Rebecca Taylor’s codes for a new generation.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Unfortunately, his doctor interprets all the screaming about an alien presence in Thomas’ head as a garden-variety psychotic breakdown, and remands him to a more secure facility.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of interprets
Verb
  • Using photogammetry, a technique which renders 2D surfaces into 3D models, and game engines, Montoya directs a virtual drone that hovers over the ruins of cities and its strange, frozen residents.
    — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Cinematographer Lukasz Zal, who also shot Ida and Cold War, renders Fatherland in the same satiny black and white, as well as the same serenely squarish, or Academy, aspect ratio.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of renders
Verb
  • The legislation enacts new work requirements and greater vetting for Medicaid, the low-income program that thousands of Alaskans depend on for healthcare.
    — Matthew Choi The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The rest of the network enacts the decision, as other genes are activated or suppressed farther downstream, but isn’t active in it.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of enacts
Verb
  • The re-emergence of a long-unseen Jean-Michel Basquiat masterpiece is a miracle the art market occasionally performs.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Brooks performs in the round, meaning anyone can see him on the stage regardless of where they’re seated.
    — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of performs
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