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sensation

[sen-sey-shuhn] / sɛnˈseɪ ʃən /




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Only about 20% of the population, however, experience “the tingles,” as the sensation is often referred to.

From Los Angeles Times

Politicians’ pets often become viral sensations, sometimes outshining their owners.

From The Wall Street Journal

Upon entering, however, you discover that the house is really a sequence of staged sensations in which detail has been fine-tuned for maximal theatrical effect.

From The Wall Street Journal

Paradoxically, at virtually the same time, the many stage adaptations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which dramatized, or melodramatized, the brutality of slavery, were an enduring sensation.

From The Wall Street Journal

The first thing that helps is to stop thinking in dishes and start thinking in sensations.

From Salon