sensationalized
- past participle of sensationalize.
- past tense form of sensationalize.
Example Sentences
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The wrong ones show up, too, as a disastrously sensationalized television venture showed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
However, some analysts believe Claude Cowork is the latest sensationalized headline feeding into an overly pessimistic narrative of AI eating software.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 15, 2026
Even crime in Orange County has been sensationalized and glamorized, with themes veneered by opulence, secrecy and illusions of suburban perfection.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026
TikTok clips, podcasts, and celebrity advocates, including Kim Kardashian, helped reframe their story for younger audiences, highlighting claims of childhood abuse and trauma that were largely overshadowed during their sensationalized trials of the 1990s.
From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025
The impetus was the publication of a highly sensationalized book, The Hydrogen Bomb: The Men, The Menace, The Mechanism, by journalists James Shepley and Clay Blair Jr., which accepted Teller’s version of events as gospel.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
