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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fictionalise.

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Examples

  • Part of this may have been the inevitable dismay people suffer when someone takes their story and fictionalises it - remember the howls from some of the Maguire Seven at the liberties taken with events in In The Name of the Father?

    April Books 11) Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden nwhyte 2009

  • Eduardo Mendoza's extraordinary novel fictionalises the teeming life of the city between the Universal Expositions of 1888 and 1929.

    10 of the best books set in Barcelona 2011

  • Eduardo Mendoza's extraordinary novel fictionalises the teeming life of the city between the Universal Expositions of 1888 and 1929.

    10 of the best books set in Barcelona 2011

  • Again, it fictionalises history rather than historically dramatising it.

    The Last King of Scotland 2007

  • As I'm not likely to see a dramatisation that fictionalises a tragic event I would also rather see a documentary I'd love it if someone would try to educate me and point out how my opinion can't fit the facts.

    so i lied 2006

  • Intermezzo, which fictionalises the composer's volatile relationship with his wife

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Intermezzo, which fictionalises the composer's volatile relationship with his wife

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • It is a dark, troubling tale, set at the birth of psycho-analysis, that fictionalises reality with a calm appreciation of the passions that lay behind the trio's different views of treatment, cures and what is "normal" behaviour.

    Evening Standard - Home Derek Malcolm 2011

  • This may be cynical of me, but it seems that this kind of inter-textual game is just the easiest way to add narrative complexity to a novel - 'The Long Song' fictionalises the story of its own creation, but in a pointless way.

    The Long Song: Amazon.co.uk: Andrea Levy: Books 2011

  • It is the symbiotic relationship between the underworld and the reverential film culture that documents and fictionalises it that perpetuates the appeal of gangster movies, biographies and documentaries.

    PopMatters 2010

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