hyped-up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hyped-up
Adjective
  • Funny and sad, exaggerated and honest, Youssef and Brady’s series offers escape and catharsis, all at the same time.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Melodrama gets a bad rap for being too exaggerated, and over-the-top but outrageous circumstances beget heightened emotions.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Mark Pellington directs the conspiracy thriller about a troubled vet (Gladstone) struggling with addiction who is recruited by a contractor (Cranston) for a covert government plot to assassinate a high-level politician.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Believe it or not, the film's director James Hawes insists Bernthal's secret agent code name was not an intentional call-out to his current run as the late, troubled, elder Berzatto brother Mikey on TV.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Pacers pulled off an upset series win against a then No. 3 seed Bucks in six games last year without Giannis Antetokounmpo.
    Homero De la Fuente, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Fifty-eight percent of the bets are on Silva to win, while 71 percent of the money is on a Mitchell upset.
    Trent Reinsmith, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Beijing has said those concerns are overblown and that the rise of its high-tech industries is due to its comparative advantages and benefits the world.
    Beijing and Washington Bureaus, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
  • But new research reevaluating one of the only rigorous studies testing that hypothesis suggests those conclusions were probably overblown.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Amid jittery markets, our seasoned wealth team stayed the course to produce two other compilations: Korea’s 50 Richest and the annual list of The World’s Billionaires, with its record haul of over 3,000 people with ten-figure fortunes, collectively worth more than $16 trillion.
    Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Relations | Opinion Trump's Tariffs and the Renaissance of American Manufacturing | Opinion Sen. Tuberville: Trump Tariffs Gave America Leverage | Opinion Trump's tariff plans sent a jolt to an already jittery bond market, causing Asian buyers to dump their treasuries.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • In 1982, Marsh switched to comedy as uptight Roz Keith in the 1982-83 TV sitcom 9 to 5, which was based on the film of the same name.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • In their dance number at the Tropicana, for instance, Omara dances with her heels down, while her more uptight sister is on her toes.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Others might be more high-strung, trying to live up to the older sibling's example or carve out their own identity.
    Emily Edlynn, Parents, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Feeling at home is a strong theme as Buddy tries to build a relationship with his estranged father, a high-strung corporate worker on the naughty list portrayed by Michael Hayden, and make it in the human world.
    Caroline Howe, NBC News, 20 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • This causes folks to be nervous, which triggers a lack in consumer confidence.
    Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The unemployment rate is pretty low at the moment, but under the hood Americans sure are nervous about the job market.
    Emily Peck, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
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“Hyped-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hyped-up. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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