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hype

[hahyp] / haɪp /
NOUN
extensive publicity
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And the hype that makes that possible is supplied, in part, by ordinary investors who don’t want to feel left out.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

Pull the Pin's social media manager Sharna Beveridge says she's not a massive football fan but is getting in the spirit thanks to the hype at work.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

How much of that is hype related to the SpaceX IPO or AST’s business development is hard to say.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

Fidelity Investments, the big brokerage and mutual fund firm, long has had a rule protecting its small retail clients from plunging into initial public stock offerings while the shares were still subject to IPO-related hype.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

“They didn’t like it when two or three people would be talking at once. That’s the producers’ natural instinct, to hype a scene by creating confusion.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell




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