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• present participle of dope.

doping

American  

[doh-ping] / ˈdoʊ pɪŋ /

noun

dopings plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dopings
  plural

Etymology

Origin of doping

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

Example Sentences

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doping dopings

Cycling did plenty to earn it in the early 2000s—more than a quarter of the Tours this century have seen the winners stripped of their titles for doping violations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

These were officials from the International Testing Agency, and they were there before dawn to carry out a highly unusual doping control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Yellow jersey wearer Pogacar was awoken after the Dane at 05:00 to undergo doping controls and suggested the effects of Vingegaard's disrupted sleep could have been a factor in his crash.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

The extremely thin silicon films still allow effective control by the transistor gate, while the high doping levels help reduce parasitic contact resistance.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026

After a few tense minutes, I began the long, meticulous process of preparing and doping a set of blue emitters.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Actually, Dancer's Image was not drugged at all, in the usual sense of racetrack dopings.

From Time Magazine Archive