sensationalize
Origin of sensationalize
1- Also especially British, sen·sa·tion·al·ise .
Other words from sensationalize
- de·sen·sa·tion·al·ize, verb (used with object), de·sen·sa·tion·al·ized, de·sen·sa·tion·al·iz·ing.
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How to use sensationalize in a sentence
What we hear about the women of Everest is often sensationalized, exaggerated, reimagined or distorted—if we hear anything at all.
Breaking Mount Everest’s Glass Ceiling | Amanda Padoan, Peter Zuckerman | March 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMuch of the media reporting on rising college costs is sensationalized.
Why We Absolutely Should Not STFU About College Costs | Zac Bissonnette | September 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTI believe the way you wrote about them sensationalized the fear of sharks.
Instead, they base their conclusions off "reality" television shows and sensationalized docudramas.
When pain is a matter of sensation or of sensationalized emotion, it depends for its existence upon the body.
The Complex Vision | John Cowper Powys
Pain and pleasure for such thinkers must be entirely sensationalized.
The Complex Vision | John Cowper Powys
British Dictionary definitions for sensationalize
sensationalise
/ (sɛnˈseɪʃənəˌlaɪz) /
(tr) to cause (events, esp in newspaper reports) to seem more vivid, shocking, etc, than they really are
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