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Recent Examples of hyperkinetic Unsettled by how images of atrocities get diminished as just another picture in our hyperkinetic culture, the rapper-actor wrote a new set of verses to accompany the keening chorus from the original song. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024 Meanwhile, his wife is a stylish and gracious psychiatrist whose sister married a duke; his children are a cerebral lesbian fashion model and a hyperkinetic globe-trotting DJ. Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024 An eventual entry into the pantheon of hyperkinetic pulp creators doesn’t feel like a reach at all. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024 And then, when Dalton does spring into action, its a hyperkinetic mixed-martial-arts melee that’s a blur and an adrenaline rush. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hyperkinetic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hyperkinetic
Adjective
  • In 2023 and the first months of 2024, his name cropped up in a lot of excitable articles in the Rio de Janeiro press.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 27 June 2025
  • The telling of the entire story of America, after all, calls into question the greatness that Donald Trump pledges to restore, and agitates a base that remains threatened and excitable by our multicultural reality.
    Kevin Sack, Time, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • But with Wirtz, there was suddenly an effort not to do that; the media got nervous about calling it a record.
    Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Watching his son evolve from a 4-star recruit out of Columbus High School in Miami to an eventual first-round pick out of Michigan State, Richardson doesn’t get too nervous or overly excited when Jase is on the court.
    Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 June 2025

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“Hyperkinetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hyperkinetic. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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