dope
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The dope is dopey, and it’s unfortunately only a foray into mushier territory.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
I’m flattening it out with my fist, thinking about all the dope places Mateo and I have been together, when I spot a Luigi hat on the floor between his dresser and bed.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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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
But I found only dopes Don’t use harness or ropes, Which is why I now lie here in traction.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2019
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 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
I got it doped out how we can even make some money on them rabbits.”
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
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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
Valieva soon became embroiled in a doping scandal that eventually landed her a four-year ban.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Traditional transistor manufacturing relies on a process called doping, which introduces impurities into silicon to control electrical behavior.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
When they had at last got it down from the doping ground, there was another hitch.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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