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hype

[hahyp] / haɪp /
NOUN
extensive publicity
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Molko decided to see what the Bordier hype was about during a trip to Paris last summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

“It’s my job to kind of hype these guys up to play a game like this.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

Tesla built hype ahead of the Cybercab event, which Musk said would usher in a “storm of Cybercabs” across Austin, Texas.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

However, some industry figures have said the fears were overblown and were being jumped on to generate hype for the industry.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

When Ms. Gruwell was trying to hype the book, she mentioned that our class was full of Holdens.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

Probably no company hypes the tech-boss-as-hero ethos as unapologetically as Palantir.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

Musk has 11 children and often hypes pro-natalist ideas.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2025

Other students then take a screenshot of these re-created posts and text them to their friends, which “continues it and hypes it out,” the officer said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024

As well as singing, the songmaster decides when the song is sung - usually after special victories - and hypes up team-mates by recapping performances of individuals in the match.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2023

Sails hypes the crowd up with a pregame speech that is straight of a wrestling promo.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 30, 2023

The look has become so hyped some have gone full circle, booking in salon appointments to mimic it.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

My last quote is a humblebrag for sure, from an email in 2012 where I hyped up the Wild Flag album to him, and he replied:

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

To be sure, Thrive has invested in its share of flops over the years, including the massively hyped Fab e-commerce platform; and Juicero, which sold an overly complicated high-tech countertop juice press.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

A US review panel on Thursday recommended loosening restrictions on the much hyped peptide BPC-157, voting that specialized pharmacies be allowed to produce it despite alarm bells from medical experts over safety concerns.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

The papers hyped his seeming lapse of concentration.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Executives have been hyping up the launch event.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

I spoke to her only once a few years ago as she and Garth Brooks were hyping a country-music awards show they were set to co-host.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The store, hyping the kickoff sale, valued the collection at $200,000 and called it one of the world’s largest private Star Wars Lego collections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

As it is, he’s spending his time hyping this deal as the conclusion of a narrative that casts him as a big hero.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

The crews were getting ready, the judges were taking their seats, and the DJ was hyping up the crowd, the bass so loud it made the walls vibrate.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi




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