Made into fiction or presented as a fictional story; transformed from real facts into a made-up narrative.
Past tense and past participle of American 'fictionize'. Functions as an adjective when describing something that has been converted to fiction.
A 'fictionized' account of something is different from a lie—it's a deliberate creative transformation that the author is being honest about, which makes it intellectually respectable.
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