dope
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American swimmer Hunter Armstrong has said he "definitely" doesn't want to dope for the games, adding: "I personally have taken pride in getting as far as I can on natural God-given talent."
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
This type of silk is made inside a spider's silk gland, where silk proteins are stored as a thick liquid called "silk dope."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2026
“I’ll be sending my lawyers to sue this poor, pathetic, talentless, dope of an M.C., and suing him for plenty$,” he wrote.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026
So if they did a dope move, they’d be like, “Aw, that was jerkin’.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
A new beauty parlor opened; “Bumpy” Johnson, the dope dealer, lost an appeal; and Langston Hughes, described as “the poet,” gave a party.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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But you might have no idea if you’ve been listening to hockey-ignorant media dopes like me lather attention on the incoming World Cup and the East Coast-pleasing, media-hub Knicks-Spurs NBA final.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
It’s not much of a fight — and Josh isn’t much of a catch — but one of Dunham’s talents is her ability to capture the allure of heartbreakers, scuzzballs and dopes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022
In a 2017 meeting at the Pentagon, he called his top generals “losers” and “a bunch of dopes and babies,” according to “A Very Stable Genius,” by Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol D. Leonnig.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2020
"Shout-out to YouTubers who have been doing this for a long time and making us pros look like real dopes this week," he said in a recent segment.
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2020
I partly blame all those dopes that clap their heads off--they'd foul up anybody, if you gave them a chance.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency said on Thursday he was "uncomfortable" with the presence at the 2026 Winter Olympics of the coach of the doped Russian skater Kamila Valieva.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
The chemical composition of the crystals, plucked from rocks in Australia, hint that they formed from magmas doped with freshwater, a team of scientists argues.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 30, 2024
An independent tribunal ruled Halep had "intentionally" doped and gave her a four-year ban.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
Hospice can elicit images of “someone doped up and bedridden,” but it is not “just providing enough morphine to make it through the end,” Gurian said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
Rattlesnakes and doped semiconductors detect infrared radiation perfectly well.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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This technique, called "doping," involves introducing a small amount of another material to produce specific properties.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
These were officials from the International Testing Agency, and they were there before dawn to carry out a highly unusual doping control.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
He added testing technology is evolving quickly but, where riders and teams push the boundaries, doping is always going to be a risk factor.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Yellow jersey wearer Pogacar was awoken after the Dane at 05:00 to undergo doping controls and suggested the effects of Vingegaard's disrupted sleep could have been a factor in his crash.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Maddie was out every Saturday that summer tinkering with engines and doping fabric wings and making friends.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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