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Discover LudwigThe word 'hyped' is a valid and commonly used word in written English
It is typically used as an adjective to describe something that has generated a lot of excitement or attention. Example: The new movie release was hyped up for weeks before its release, but it ultimately fell short of expectations. In this sentence, 'hyped' is used as an adjective to describe the level of excitement and anticipation surrounding the movie's release. Another example: The CEO's speech was hyped by the media as a game-changer for the company's future. Here, 'hyped' is used to describe the excessive promotion and excitement surrounding the CEO's upcoming speech.
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hyped
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Past of hype
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This year has seen no exciting steps forward for the medium, no breakthrough talents that have taken the web by storm, and no moneyed producers are making serious investments in the previously hyped new format.
Signed from Santos in the summer of 2013, Anderson was hyped from the start as the next great Brazilian talent – a man whom Neymar described as "my little brother".
If no one should discount Howe, deservedly hyped as one of England's brightest young coaches, the even more youthful Neil is fast emerging as a similarly hot property.
Henry Barnes Winner Lena Dunhamm in Vogue News of Jezebel's sisterly plan to pay $10k for unPhotoshopped images of Lena Dunham's US Vogue cover shoot in 2014 was more hyped than news of the cover itself.
"This is something that's been hyped up to show Modi as a rockstar," Badwal shrugged.
We know that when science news is hyped, most of the hype is already present in the press releases issued by universities.
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The truth is that the 8,000 or so members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences can be a very discerning bunch, witness best picture Oscars for "The King's Speech" this year, "The Hurt Locker" in 2010 (rather than they much-hyped "Avatar") and "Slumdog Millionaire" in 2009.
The real spur behind the coalition's attack on the working time directive is to be seen by business to be cutting the much hated but vastly over-hyped "red tape" that is supposed to stifle entrepreneurship.
Baron Cohen had been due to make his debut for the Pulp Fiction director in his much-hyped 19th-century Deep South-set follow up to Inglourious Basterds, cameoing in the role of Scotty Harmony, a gambler who buys the title character's enslaved wife as a companion.
George Clooney's much-hyped second world war thriller The Monuments Men has surprised Hollywood by abruptly cancelling its planned pre-Christmas release and moving it to an as-yet-unspecified date in the first quarter of 2014.
And so, with the release of the already-hyped film, we find ourselves here again.
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