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hype

[hahyp] / haɪp /
NOUN
extensive publicity
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And if you think they’re hype, or a silly fad, please know:

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Unitree Robotics is set to become the first public humanoid-robotics company in mainland China, and it’s riding the robotics hype straight to the bank.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

Fund managers such as Blue Owl, Blackstone and KKR dismissed the panic as media hype, saying fund performance tells a different story.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

For others, they are merely another vehicle for tech firms to hype up their powerful models and compete with rivals.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

My automatic response was to think he had come upon some way I could work a hype on the penal authorities.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

These days, Crews, 57, serves as the host of “America’s Got Talent,” currently in its 21st season, where he hypes up contestants looking to win the approval of judges including Simon Cowell and Sofía Vergara.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 8, 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

The fixture hypes itself and its intense rivalry has meant 40,000 tickets have been sold.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2024

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

From Washington Times Apr. 30, 2023

Kimi Antonelli started his Formula 1 career in 2025 hyped as the next generational talent - but did not live up to that billing in his maiden season.

From BBC Jul. 29, 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

Before the game, he strutted around, at one point even grabbing Dalton Rushing, decked in full catcher’s gear, to get hyped.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

In response, Noboa has adopted a tough-on-crime approach and hyped his collaboration with the Trump administration in counter-narcotics on land and at sea.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

Press coverage hyped the personal nature of the conflict between the offender and specific victim.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

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

Larsson's dancers and their choreography have been key to hyping up her audiences on her current world tour, and on Saturday night they had tens of thousands vibing in Sunderland's Herrington Country Park.

From BBC May 23, 2026

They said the focus likely will be on companies hyping AI businesses without having actual technology advantages, using overseas operations to skirt domestic regulations, or flouting Beijing’s orders against price wars.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

Reese Witherspoon has long championed the creative community, but a recent social media post hyping artificial intelligence isn’t sitting well with writers and authors.

From Los Angeles Times May 13, 2026

I don’t know where he’s taking me, but he’s been hyping it all week.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera




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