poetic license
noun
: license sense 4
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The last scene finds her meditating on the limits of poetic license at Ouidah’s Gate of No Return, a waterfront memorial to those whom the Dahomeans and their predecessors consigned to social death in the Americas. 
Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022 So the poetic license on the songs on this record was really, really limited. Melinda Newman, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2022 Of course, train robbery is such a familiar term that perhaps there is poetic license. WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022 However, the victim inevitably would have died from shock and blood loss very early on in the process, so the final fluttering of the lungs is likely poetic license. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2022 The language of burning is poetic license, or should be: No one wants to eat rice that’s actually been burned. New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021 Of course, that's a bit of poetic license; Kirk is, after all, a fictional character. Don Lincoln, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021 To put a life, or an act of creation, on-screen means speaking in movie language, always its own kind of poetic license to begin with; to put a life of music on the screen invites even more hyperbole and exaggeration. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Aug. 2021 Suddenly, what was originally just an ethereal touch of poetic license becomes an extended flight of surrealism. Washington Post, 18 June 2021 See More
Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022 So the poetic license on the songs on this record was really, really limited. Melinda Newman, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2022 Of course, train robbery is such a familiar term that perhaps there is poetic license. WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022 However, the victim inevitably would have died from shock and blood loss very early on in the process, so the final fluttering of the lungs is likely poetic license. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2022 The language of burning is poetic license, or should be: No one wants to eat rice that’s actually been burned. New York Times, 28 Oct. 2021 Of course, that's a bit of poetic license; Kirk is, after all, a fictional character. Don Lincoln, CNN, 12 Oct. 2021 To put a life, or an act of creation, on-screen means speaking in movie language, always its own kind of poetic license to begin with; to put a life of music on the screen invites even more hyperbole and exaggeration. Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Aug. 2021 Suddenly, what was originally just an ethereal touch of poetic license becomes an extended flight of surrealism. Washington Post, 18 June 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1819, in the meaning defined above