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Definition of Sensationalized
1. sensationalize [v] - See also: sensationalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sensationalized
Literary usage of Sensationalized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Drug Addiction Research & the Health of Women edited by Cora L. Wetherington (1999)
"The media have sensationalized stories about women's drug use, portraying women
as victims of drug abuse or as mothers who allegedly abuse their children. ..."
2. Mega-City Growth and the Future by Roland J. Fuchs (1994)
"New York tabloids have sensationalized the phenomenon of "wilding," resulting in
gang rape, assault on strangers, and random terrorism of innocent citizens. ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"Burbank's work has been misjudged and sensationalized by reporters (a danger
which just now threatens all work of this kind), until the public is in great ..."
4. The Marshall Plan Summer: An Eyewitness Report on Europe and the Russians in by Thomas Andrew Bailey (1977)
"... they would do well to send in brief stories devoted to subjects that appealed
to the more sensationalized standards of the home office. ..."
5. The Popular Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1918)
"This, the person who thrills to sensationalized ugliness, to ingenuous sleight-of-hand,
to literature with the mumps, to Rome in the days of its Los Angeles ..."
6. Virginia Law Books: Essays and Bibliographies by William Hamilton Bryson (2000)
"Apparently, those dealing with the more sensationalized trials served a market
similar to that of today's talk shows and tabloids. ..."
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