dope
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Fabi would scream, “Yo, it’d be dope at a little higher tempo!” and we’d push it from there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
The latter has been handled by cartoons like the 2019 series “Harley Quinn,” which turns Superman into an overly confident dope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 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
Clevinger replied with courtesy that he would not like it; he was a dope who would rather be a corpse than bury one.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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But these elephants are no dopes: One of Ms. Argo’s coups is capturing a very well-organized raid—quietly executed, under cover of darkness—by a parade of males into a tomato plantation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 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
We straight-up mocked the dopes and losers who chose to stay in the frozen wastes of New England or the Midwest, making snowballs while we plucked oranges from our own backyard trees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 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
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
There have been claims that Kratochvilova's performance in Munich was assisted by the systematic doping regime that existed in her country at the time - something she has strenuously denied.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Cycling did plenty to earn it in the early 2000s—more than a quarter of the Tours this century have seen the winners stripped of their titles for doping violations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
There is some scepticism within cycling about whether such an approach will be of any additional benefit to a sport which has not had a major doping controversy for more than five years.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
After a few tense minutes, I began the long, meticulous process of preparing and doping a set of blue emitters.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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