: the use of a substance (such as an anabolic steroid or erythropoietin) or technique (such as blood doping) to illegally improve athletic performance
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increased efforts to detect doping at the Olympic Games
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Jannik Sinner’s doping case has been one of the biggest stories in tennis since shortly before the 2024 U.S. Open.
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Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
More than a decade ago, during the early stages of graphene development, some preliminary reports found that graphene flakes are toxic to live cells, mainly because of their size and the chemical doping used in the fabrication of certain types of graphene.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2025
The data from China’s human trials shows only how the body processes the drug over time, the doctors and scientists who reviewed it for The Times said, and does not show whether the levels that were in the swimmers’ systems could have been caused by intentional doping or accidental contamination.
—Tariq Panja, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
But Świątek was coming out of a long layoff, which would later turn out to be a short silent ban for a positive doping test, owing to contaminated melatonin.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
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Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 15 Feb. 2025
More than a decade ago, during the early stages of graphene development, some preliminary reports found that graphene flakes are toxic to live cells, mainly because of their size and the chemical doping used in the fabrication of certain types of graphene.
—IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2025
The data from China’s human trials shows only how the body processes the drug over time, the doctors and scientists who reviewed it for The Times said, and does not show whether the levels that were in the swimmers’ systems could have been caused by intentional doping or accidental contamination.
—Tariq Panja, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
But Świątek was coming out of a long layoff, which would later turn out to be a short silent ban for a positive doping test, owing to contaminated melatonin.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
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“Doping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doping. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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doping
noun
dop·ing
ˈdō-piŋ 
: the use of a substance (such as an anabolic steroid or erythropoietin) or technique (such as blood doping) to improve athletic performance and that is typically banned in competitive sports
… nearly two dozen athletes … have been banned from the Olympics in the last two weeks for doping violations.—Philip Hersh, The Chicago Tribune
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