: the use of a substance (such as an anabolic steroid or erythropoietin) or technique (such as blood doping) to illegally improve athletic performance
Examples of doping in a Sentence
increased efforts to detect doping at the Olympic Games
Recent Examples on the Web
This is a method that replaces the complex and costly process of chemical doping with electric fields.
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IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2024
Halep engaged an American lawyer, Howard Jacobs, who often represents top athletes implicated in doping, and the three CAS judges are some of its most in-demand.
—Graham Dunbar, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
Whether the doping is n-type or p-type depends simply on the direction of the gradient.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024
There was skepticism Valieva was a victim of an institutional culture in Russian sports of doping and lack of duty of care to young athletes.
—Graham Dunbar, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
The decision, arriving almost two years after the end of the Beijing Games, is most likely the final twist in a yearslong fight that wove together threads familiar to followers of recent Olympics: athletic greatness, Russian doping, bitter accusations and whispers of coverups.
—Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
This oxygen doping is easily removed by heating it at about 200 °C in vacuum.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Jan. 2024
William Trubridge, a world-record-holding New Zealand freediver and one of the sport’s most vocal ambassadors, wrote in 2021 that doping was creeping into their world.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
Through their investigations, the Arizona State University team found that the cathode remained stable with up to 20 percent sodium doping.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 July 2023
IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2024
Halep engaged an American lawyer, Howard Jacobs, who often represents top athletes implicated in doping, and the three CAS judges are some of its most in-demand.
—Graham Dunbar, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2024
Whether the doping is n-type or p-type depends simply on the direction of the gradient.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2024
There was skepticism Valieva was a victim of an institutional culture in Russian sports of doping and lack of duty of care to young athletes.
—Graham Dunbar, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024
The decision, arriving almost two years after the end of the Beijing Games, is most likely the final twist in a yearslong fight that wove together threads familiar to followers of recent Olympics: athletic greatness, Russian doping, bitter accusations and whispers of coverups.
—Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
This oxygen doping is easily removed by heating it at about 200 °C in vacuum.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Jan. 2024
William Trubridge, a world-record-holding New Zealand freediver and one of the sport’s most vocal ambassadors, wrote in 2021 that doping was creeping into their world.
—Amanda Lee Myers, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
Through their investigations, the Arizona State University team found that the cathode remained stable with up to 20 percent sodium doping.
—IEEE Spectrum, 20 July 2023
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doping
noun
dop·ing
ˈdō-piŋ 
: the use of a substance (such as an anabolic steroid or erythropoietin) or technique (such as blood doping) to improve athletic performance and that is typically banned in competitive sports
… nearly two dozen athletes … have been banned from the Olympics in the last two weeks for doping violations.—Philip Hersh, The Chicago Tribune
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