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Recent Examples of hyperkinetic Eisenberg’s performance is terrific, muted and hyperkinetic in all the right ways. TIME, 1 Nov. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for hyperkinetic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hyperkinetic
Adjective
  • Neurons and glial cells are like dance partners in the brain, coordinating moves that shape how signals flow and how excitable neurons become.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Tony has fully bought into the dream, and Skarsgård plays him with excitable, boyish humor, almost as if the whole thing were a game.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Against Świątek, in two nervous moments, one of them on match point, net cords had given her safe harbor.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The district’s disparate parts would be connected largely by two-lane highways cutting through steep slopes of places such as the Modoc National Forest, where nervous drivers must beware of a lack of guardrails.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Hyperkinetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hyperkinetic. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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