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sensationalized

sensationalized is the simple past and past participle of sensationalize.

Meaning of sensationalize

Verb

sensationalize (third-person singular simple present sensationalizes, present participle sensationalizing, simple past and past participle sensationalized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To glorify or inflate the importance of a piece of news; to artificially create a sensation.

Forms of sensationalized

comparativemore sensationalized
superlativemost sensationalized

Words formed from sensationalized

Questions about sensationalized

What is sensationalized the simple past and past participle of?
Sensationalized is the simple past and past participle of sensationalize.

Words near sensationalized in the dictionary

  1. sensationality
  2. sensationalizable
  3. sensationalization
  4. sensationalizations
  5. sensationalize
  6. sensationalized
  7. sensationalizer
  8. sensationalizers
  9. sensationalizes
  10. sensationalizing
  11. sensationally

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sensationalized (page history and authors); sensationalize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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