overmagnify

verb

overmagnify

verb

Etymology From over- + magnify.

1

To magnify too much.

Sabato's (1991) Feeding Frenzy similarly focuses on the post-Watergate tendency in American mass media to overmagnify certain events and to provide more cynical and contentious coverage of politics.2014, Stuart N. Soroka, Negativity in Democratic Politics: Causes and Consequences, page 74:

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