sensationalistic

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Celebrities are offered an opportunity to promote their upcoming projects in a sensationalistic yet humanistic and, oftentimes, meme-worthy manner.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2025

“The big publications used to only cover crypto in a sensationalistic way, when it was booming or crashing, and now they’re finally building out crypto coverage arms,” he mentioned.

From Slate • Jan. 6, 2023

The staging, as slickly modern as it is unapologetically sensationalistic, makes an appeal to a new and perhaps younger demographic — the kind of folks who might not think an Ahmanson outing is for them.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2022

Certain local broadcast media continuously bombard us with sensationalistic, reductionist crime narratives.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2022

Thus, there is far less overlap between hackerdom and crackerdom than the mundane reader misled by sensationalistic journalism might expect.

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.