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Example sentences for: hyped

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In fact, no one specific product is hyped.
Because she's 17 and black (her father calls her a "ghetto Cinderella"), and because she's been hyped for years (she got a multimillion-dollar Reebok contract at 14), she overshadowed the new men's champion--Australian heartthrob Patrick Rafter--and women's champion Martina Hingis, who is a year younger than Williams and creamed her in the finals.
I see from the papers that the Y2K consultants are already extremely defensive, insisting that the problem wasn't hyped and that their $100 billion price tag was worth it.
Yesterday the magazine hyped the issue with a study supposedly proving that older Americans bonk more frequently than anyone previously knew.
Critics hyped the face-off between New Republic theater critic Robert Brustein and black playwright August Wilson over Afrocentric theater as "the intellectual version of extreme fighting" (Frank Rich, the New York Times ). But the debate was judged to be a flop--lots of combative bravado and little payoff.