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A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Orpah. examples
(television, colloquial) The Oprah Winfrey Show, a popular long-running U.S. television talk show (1986–2011). examples
third-person singular simple present Oprahs, present participle Oprahing, simple past and past participle Oprahed or Oprah'd
(informal, uncommon) To feature on The Oprah Winfrey Show. quotations examples
Suddenly it seemed as if [Cormac] McCarthy was the most famous writer in America: profiled, reappraised, gossiped about, Oprah'd, but, most importantly, read.
2008 January 12, Jason Cowley, “A shot rang out …”, in The Guardian
[Jonathan Franzen] had expressed to various people his anxiety about being “Oprah-ed” (my word, not his). He was uneasy about being linked indiscriminately to other novelists she had anointed but whose work he did not respect, and she got wind of his discontent.
2015, Philip Weinstein, Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
To be Oprahed means that one shares details about themselves that he or she would normally not share publicly. Indeed, more than one writer has quipped that Winfrey's cultural authority transformed her name into an adjective, verb, adverb, and noun.
2019, Jamie J. Wilson, editor, 50 Events That Shaped African American History, ABC-CLIO, page 704