hyped-up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for hyped-up
Adjective
  • Ladies, leg warmers and padded shoulders have never looked better on you than when driving a TR7.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The complex, situated near the middle and high school, would feature dugouts, a padded backstop, field lights, fencing and scoreboards, as well as a dual-lane batting cage.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The actress stepped out in New York City wearing a pair of retro-inspired, deep blue flare jeans with exaggerated bell hems.
    Jamie Allison Sanders, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Wrangler Retro High-Rise Trumpet Flare Jeans For a more statement-making option, try these Wrangler jeans with an exaggerated trumpet flare.
    Clara McMahon, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Of course, other corporations have been down a similarly troubled road in recent years.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The filing is known in Italy as a CNC, and offers troubled companies the time and space to restructure, and chart a path forward.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The enlarged space will be well utilized by Improv Playhouse.
    Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Jewelry is now located on the ground floor just inside of the Broadway entrance between 57th and 58th streets, while handbags have been moved to the second floor in an enlarged department.
    Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
  • There have been some instances, however, when an upset crayfish comes home from a hard day of crayfishing only to have to kick out a frog and cap the burrow.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, for an AI that claims someone is going into something bad, but the AI has computationally misjudged the circumstance, users are bound to howl and get upset with the AI and the AI maker.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • City leaders say residency requirement promotes accountability Hanson said staffing issues related to the residency requirement affect a small number of employees, and the idea that Indianapolis is struggling to hire across the board is overblown.
    Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 31 Aug. 2025
  • However, claims of a mass exodus of wealthy non-doms in response to tax rises may be overblown.
    Ritika Gupta, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • But then the crowds swelled to the tens of thousands, and the security state got jittery.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2025
  • These are jittery times, and scripted television has responded with an unusually jittery set of offerings.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 9 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Predictably, the hubbub surrounding the photo was eventually framed as a war between uptight virgins and godless heathens, with a quieter contingent astounded only by the fact that this kind of marketing could still be so effective.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The more uptight Theo gets, the looser Benedict’s performance appears, and his facility for physical comedy gets a workout.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Hyped-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hyped-up. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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