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Example sentences for: hype

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William Safire in his New Political Dictionary writes: "Investing a minor occurrence with false importance is called 'hype' or 'media hype,' from the euphoric kick one gets from an injection of a narcotic with a hypodermic needle."
And since her ideal readers are, I suspect, the people most churlishly resistant to hype, I fear we may see the eensiest backlash soon.
So, despite considerable hype, the published studies are far from the level of evidence that would be accepted for virtually any other medical test.
Hype in the sense of excessive or false publicity goes back much further than the 1960s (Collingwood's suggested decade of origin)--to at least the 1920s (per the Oxford English Dictionary ), which is the same time that hype is attested to as a verb and noun associated with drug use, and the word is explicitly linked to hypodermic . The OED , the Dictionary of American Slang , the Barnhart Dictionary of New English , and the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang all make the hypodermic connection.
It then placed hotlinks to these URLs on its own pages that hype various concerts and theatrical productions.