Usually means: Exaggerate for emotional or dramatic effect.
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  1. sensationalise: Merriam-Webster
  2. sensationalise: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sensationalise: Wordnik
  4. sensationalise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  6. sensationalise: Dictionary.com
  7. Sensationalise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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verb:  Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of sensationalize. [(American spelling, Oxford British English) To glorify or inflate the importance of a piece of news; to artificially create a sensation.]

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