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
A Super Bowl favorite—that’s right, I wasn’t the only dope to select them to go all the way—the Ravens are 1-4 after a 44-10 home thumping to the previously 1-3 Houston Texans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
“So dope we’re doing the pageant together, Vanessa,” she says.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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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 asked them if they liked it, but do you think you could get an intelligent answer out of those three dopes?
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 report, instigated by the ITIA, ruled Halep had "intentionally" doped and handed out a four-year ban.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 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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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
Benn, who has lost just once in 26 fights, was also sidelined for a year amid a doping scandal.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Valieva soon became embroiled in a doping scandal that eventually landed her a four-year ban.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The extremely thin silicon films still allow effective control by the transistor gate, while the high doping levels help reduce parasitic contact resistance.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 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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