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as in users
a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally
a derelict building that's now a shooting gallery for heroin hypes
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as in needles
a slender hollow instrument by which material is put into or taken from the body through the skin
scattered inside the abandoned building were hypes and other signs of drug use
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as in increases
to make greater in size, amount, or number
the TV writers tried to hype interest in the fading soap opera with flashy new plotlines
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as in promotes
to provide publicity for
the auto company has been hyping its forthcoming line of hybrids for almost a year now
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Recent Examples of hypes
Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Feb. 2026
Verb
In an Instagram video posted Monday by NBC, the Grammy winner hypes American women figure skaters competing at the games in Italy.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hypes
Noun
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Not all iPhone users will have access to the feature.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
20 Feb. 2026
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Afterwards, ByteDance rolled back that feature and introduced verification requirements for users who want to create digital avatars with their own images and audio, according to Chinese media.—
Stephanie Yang,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
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The work at a syringe exchange center, like the one housed at the Damien Center on Indianapolis' east side, doesn't begin and end with handing out sterile needles.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
13 Feb. 2026
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Merrill, a former injection drug user who is in recovery, counts herself among the thousands of harm reduction workers nationwide evangelizing a shift away from needles and toward pipes.—
Lev Facher,
STAT,
12 Feb. 2026
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AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.—
Ramona Sentinel,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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Some of them self-identified as gambling addicts.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
1 Feb. 2026
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The company sells 35 billion devices a year ranging from hypodermic needles to advanced monitoring platforms.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
19 Feb. 2026
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In fact, the mosquito proboscis has even been put to use before, as the inspiration for pain-free hypodermic needles.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
27 Dec. 2025
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Which makes him pretty much like a lot of his action-sports brethren — all of them adremaline junkies — who will grace the 50-meter-high hill (165 feet) built on a scaffolding at the Winter Olympics in Livigno over the next two weeks.—
Eddie Pells,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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In the brain scans of other extreme athletes and adrenaline junkies, Amen said there’s often lower baseline activity in the prefrontal cortex, which is involved in fear inhibition, impulse control and risk evaluation.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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“Hypes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hypes. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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