dope
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I make fun of her a lot, but it’s dope, man.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
We’ve already made fun of Eric Schmitt in this edition, and we will continue to do so later on, because it’s rare that someone is caught so red-handed being a dope.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
The dope is dopey, and it’s unfortunately only a foray into mushier territory.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 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
It’s dope to be black until it’s hard to be black.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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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
To me, the celebration phase is the most heinous phase, because we have people who really know better who are acting like dopes, and it's hurting us.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2022
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
This is where I’ll put on my tortilla-historian sombrero and say something you might find unbelievable: Tortilla-tossing has a long, strange history in California that’s almost never racist — until dopes make it so.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2021
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
Doping may cause physical changes, but how the exciton complex -- a bound state of two positively-charged holes and one negatively-charged electron -- manifests in diamonds doped with boron has remained unconfirmed.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 27, 2024
Ross had not been doped; he had been awakened.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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And as City, which denies any wrongdoing, awaits an unprecedented penalty for financial doping, the scandal has rippled all the way to new Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Moore, who has always denied intentionally doping, told BBC Sport after the ruling that the case has been a "nightmare".
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Navigating a career-threatening doping case, surviving the ferocious Eubank rivalry and acrimoniously splitting from long-time promoter Eddie Hearn transformed him from 'Nigel's boy' into one of British boxing's most polarising headliners.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
This technique, called "doping," involves introducing a small amount of another material to produce specific properties.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 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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