hyped-up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hyped-up
Adjective
  • The Lovevook Tote features a padded laptop compartment and multiple interior pockets, accommodating everything from a wallet to lip gloss.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Chair massage, familiar to us from nail salons, Central Park, and airports, also takes place clothed, on a special padded chair—conditions that seemed poised to stymie efforts at showmanship.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Since the movie features an exaggerated take on real-life dating shows, what was your experience like filming a reality show within a movie?
    Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But are those exaggerated reactions innate or learned?
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Looking for role models, troubled young men find Andrew Tate.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Laporta has repeatedly said that returning to the Camp Nou, which will have a capacity of 105,000 when finished, as soon as possible is crucial to boosting their troubled finances.
    Pol Ballus, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Digestive problems, such as an enlarged esophagus or colon, can lead to trouble eating or going to the bathroom.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Between 20% and 30% of people who contract Chagas disease could develop serious heart or digestive problems, risk getting an enlarged heart, colon or esophagus, or risk heart failure or cardiac arrest, per the CDC.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Danni-Elle Townsend, who’s made a solid impression in PPA internationals this year, was upset in the first round by 43-yr old qualifier and eventual Bronze medalist from Japan Rika Fujiwara, a former WTA tennis pro who toured for more than 20 years before retiring from Tennis in 2020.
    Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Mourners, many of whom were visibly upset and wearing Walmart uniforms, placed electric candles at the memorial.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 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
  • Back in his Talking Head-fronting days, the euphoria was the jittery kind.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 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 14 Sep. 2025.

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