dope
noun
any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.
were 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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“The primary sources of this cash were doping fines paid personally to the president and cash withdrawals of large amounts from the I.W.F. account,” McLaren wrote.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
A German TV investigation claimed that up to 99% of Russian athletes were doping; subsequent individual bans revealed that even curlers and visually impaired Paralympians were at it.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2019
“I competed clean, and I beat athletes that I knew were doping and some that eventually were caught,” she says.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2016
A month after the 2012 Olympics, the AP report said, an internal brief prepared for Diack estimated that 42 percent of tested Russian elite athletes were doping.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 2016
Jaksche confirmed the story to investigators but Riis denied it, claiming he did not know that Hamburger and Jaksche were doping.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2015
