dope
noun
any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
was doping
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past progressiveof dope.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In recent years, some antidoping authorities have shown they will search for even a crumb of wrongdoing, even if the violation doesn’t prove the athlete was doping.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2021
None of the insiders I spoke to has seen any evidence that Mo Farah was doping.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2015
Another was doping gallium nitride such that it emitted light efficiently.
From Nature ● Oct. 6, 2014
Indeed, part of the problem was that Armstrong was rowing back on so much previous behaviour and years of aggressive lambasting of reporters, officials and team-mates who had claimed he was doping.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2013
American sprinters who’d been stripped of their 2000 Olympics relay medals because teammate Marion Jones was doping won an appeal to have them restored.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2011
