Definition of "sensational" []

• Of or relating to sensation. (adjective)
• Arousing or intended to arouse strong curiosity, interest, or reaction, especially by exaggerated or lurid details: sensational journalism; a sensational television report. (adjective)
• Outstanding; spectacular: a sensational concert; a sensational dinner. (adjective)

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• "House Government Reform Committee chairman Congressman Henry Waxman said the government invented what he calls sensational details and stories."
• "General Petraeus making it very clear that these -- what he calls sensational attacks, the suicide bombs, the suicide car bombs, the spectacular attacks that are killing so many Iraqis are a problem."
• "Rumsfeld argues that history will have a larger perspective than what is the daily attacks, the Web blogs and the what he called sensational reporting."