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

If we admit that mathematics is true—and it seems quite impossible to avoid the admission—we can now see that neither the traditional Kant-Hegel doctrine nor the traditional sensationalistic empiricism can be sound.

From Recent Developments in European Thought by Various