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What does sensationalize mean?

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  1. (British English) To glorify or inflate the importance of a piece of news; to artificially create a sensation.
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He conducts with drama, tenderness, and imagination, and he doesn't distort or sensationalize the music.
He blamed economics for the tendency of the press to latch on to stories and sensationalize them.
Since Wednesday, I have been fielding phone calls left, right, and centre from journalists who want me to sensationalize the demise.
There was, in other words, no effort to sensationalize or exaggerate the terrible event.
But we tend as a society to sensationalize and overdramatize the effect.
Although most of them rehash the subject in a different format or sensationalize the horrifying potential of these weapons, this work is fundamentally different.

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