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Dramatic event   /drəmˈætɪk ɪvˈɛnt/   Listen
Dramatic event

noun
1.
An episode that is turbulent or highly emotional.  Synonym: drama.






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"Dramatic event" Quotes from Famous Books



... case came to trial early in the autumn session. It was the most dramatic event of the year, and it was seriously suggested that it would be a good thing to hold the trial in the opera house in order that all the townspeople should be able to enjoy it. A cynical young editor made a counter suggestion: "I move ...
— The Eagle's Heart • Hamlin Garland

... their liberty,[236] there is but one significant example of actual colonization under individual auspices. This occurred in 1815 when Paul Cuffe took thirty-eight Negroes to the western coast of Africa.[237] This dramatic event in Negro deportation, owing to the wide publicity given to it, stimulated ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various



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