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What does sensationalize mean?

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Verb
  1. (British English) To glorify or inflate the importance of a piece of news; to artificially create a sensation.
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It is unfortunate that the media has chosen to sensationalize rather than educate the public on this very important matter.
He conducts with drama, tenderness, and imagination, and he doesn't distort or sensationalize the music.
Mr. Ray knows better than to sensationalize a story about the dangers of sensationalism.
Beyond that, though, Thomas doesn't sensationalize the deaths, and he doesn't make Brynn Hartman a monster or Phil Hartman a saint.
He blamed economics for the tendency of the press to latch on to stories and sensationalize them.
But we tend as a society to sensationalize and overdramatize the effect.

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