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doping

[ doh-ping ]

noun

  1. an act or instance of giving a drug to an athlete or horse, so as to affect performance in a race or other competition.
  2. Electronics. a method of adding a dopant to a pure semiconductor to change its electrical properties.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of doping1

First recorded in 1950–55; dope + -ing 1
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Example Sentences

My friends and family know how much I’m against doping and know it is a topic in which I have always been outspoken.

Thrown into this mix are a number of suspected doping cases arising from increasingly sophisticated laboratory analysis methods that are detecting lower and lower levels of prohibited substances.

From Quartz

Russia has been accused by anti-doping regulators of running one of the most sophisticated doping schemes in the history of international sports.

From Axios

The Houlihan episode isn’t the first time questionable meat has played a role in the doping ban of an American track athlete.

From Ozy

His successor, Yevgeny Yurchenko, resigned last July amid doping scandals embroiling the federation’s officials.

From Time

Animal welfare advocates have decried these doping practices for years.

One possible way to defuse the financial incentives and advantages to doping is to legalize it.

I knew about the allegations of doping, but I didn't know them in great detail.

The biggest revelation from Wheelmen broke last week: Sheryl Crow witnessing then-boyfriend Lance Armstrong doping.

Armstrong never hid his doping from the (many) women in his life.

Mr. Ellsworth was right when he said that Tom had a way of doping things out for himself.

Tell me if this man has been doping himself into unconsciousness.

Doping a poor little thing is always good stuff to spring on a jury, Gid-up.

No one saw Willie doping the horse, or the fight, so it would have been just my word about what happened.

Maybe I'll feel like that guy standin' doping over that spread of forest scene.

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