SENSATIONALIZE meaning: Exaggerate content to provoke excitement

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sensationalize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sensationalize: Merriam-Webster
sensationalize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
sensationalize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
sensationalize: Collins English Dictionary
sensationalize: Wiktionary
sensationalize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
sensationalize: Infoplease Dictionary
sensationalize: Dictionary.com
sensationalize: TheFreeDictionary.com
sensationalize: Wordnik
sensationalize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

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▸ verb: (American spelling, Oxford British English) To glorify or inflate the importance of a piece of news; to artificially create a sensation.

Similar:

sensationalise, oversensationalize, Barnumize, oversentimentalize, exaggerate, make a big thing out of, overhype, overglamorize, overexaggerate, blow out of proportion, more...

Opposite:

downplay, understate, minimize, de-emphasize

Types:

overhype, oversell, overplay, more...

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