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These stories were the unfortunate result of intentionally sensationist reporting, and also a basic misunderstanding of how the label works.

From Salon • Aug. 1, 2024

His logic has in fact the good and bad points that we might expect to find in a sensationist who knows no science but mathematics.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various

No doubt, too, that, under the present palaver of the "sensationist" caste, the old ladies of both sexes have come to regard crime as mere misfortune: these will lament this proceeding as cruel.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various

No doubt, too, that under the present palaver of the "sensationist" caste, the old ladies of both sexes have come to regard crime as mere misfortune: these will lament this proceeding as cruel.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter

Scientifically regarded he was a realist as opposed to an idealist, a sensationist as opposed to an intuitionist, a materialist as opposed to a spiritualist.

From Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life by Herndon, William H.