sensationalize
verb (used with object)
to make sensational.
sensationalise
-
a variation of
sensationalize.
Example Sentences
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Bradley Wiggins: 'I couldn't care less what the newspapers sensationalise'
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2025
Cameras will not be allowed to film victims, witnesses and jurors amid concerns that wider televising of trials could damage the quality of evidence or sensationalise cases.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2022
It is the sort of prophetic detail some might sensationalise – an audacious breadcrumb dropped by a predator.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2020
In the UK, we tend to sensationalise it.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2016
It is challenging to neither sensationalise nor sanitise.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2013
