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Recent Examples of joyride
Miles Socha, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025
Most parking garages are more interested in keeping your car safe while you’re gone than taking it for an extended joyride.
—Josh Max, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
If that first season was a high-speed joyride—part Mad Max, part Mario Kart—Season 2 hit the accelerator, stretching across 10 episodes that grew bolder, stranger, and more emotionally grounded, with a finale that offers its characters a glimpse of what life beyond survival looks like.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
However, Harrison has denied any involvement in the joyride.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Enter Scott, who specializes in fashion as a theatrical joyride.
—Miles Socha, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025
Most parking garages are more interested in keeping your car safe while you’re gone than taking it for an extended joyride.
—Josh Max, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
If that first season was a high-speed joyride—part Mad Max, part Mario Kart—Season 2 hit the accelerator, stretching across 10 episodes that grew bolder, stranger, and more emotionally grounded, with a finale that offers its characters a glimpse of what life beyond survival looks like.
—Jp Mangalindan, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
However, Harrison has denied any involvement in the joyride.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyride
Noun
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But later this year, alternative map views will also be rolled out, including satellite, street, and transit views.—
Rachel Chang,
Travel + Leisure,
24 Oct. 2025
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In early September, transit officials in North Carolina released graphic video footage showing the fatal stabbing of Zarutska, which prompted fierce backlash against city and state officials.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The boat therefore needed metal or plastic cages installed around the engines, so that the diver wouldn’t get accidentally cut up by their blades — and finding a boat and then the right cages fit onto the boat would take time.—
Samanth Subramanian,
The Dial,
14 Oct. 2025
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Techniques like this have been around for some time, but Micro-C uses an enzyme that can cut up DNA more finely than before.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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These are especially useful for taking public transport, grabbing a quick coffee, or leaving a small tip at a restaurant.—
Asia London Palomba,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
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According to the team, the resultant materials, which include oxides of tungsten, titanium, and niobium, have high surface areas, stable crystalline grains, and regular pores—all essential for quick ion transport.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Bill Skarsgård returns as killer clown Pennywise.—
EW Staff,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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Killer clown horror Hellbilly Hollow has been acquired by High-Fliers Films for UK and Ireland, Lighthouse Entertainment for Germany, Austria and Switzerland and Encripta for Latin America.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
20 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The hope is that the talks could clear rising tensions between the world’s two largest economies and allow the global economy to keep motoring.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
27 Oct. 2025
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The hope in Southern California is that someday soon, the two will motor the franchise to its first Super Bowl championship.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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With millions of additional packages moving through the system daily, the USPS temporarily raises prices to offset higher transportation, labor, and fuel costs.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Oct. 2025
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The measure would provide $45 billion to expand ICE’s detention capacity to nearly 100,000 beds, $14 billion for transportation and removal operations and $8 billion to hire 10,000 new deportation officers.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The latest rollout was a 1,400 square meter property in the upmarket Lekki district in Lagos, built on a grassy playground where children once flew kites close to the city’s lagoon.—
Alexander Onukwue,
semafor.com,
18 July 2025
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Arc Games Treacherous terrain is a big part of the strategy, whether using it for power-ups or kiting enemies into bad spots.—
Kevin Purdy,
Ars Technica,
20 Mar. 2025
Verb
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In the 1960s, Jay Sebring made a giant leap from middle-class Michigan boy and Navy veteran to stylist to the stars, tooling around Hollywood in his Shelby Cobra convertible and jetting off to cut the hair of Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra and more.—
Susan Young,
PEOPLE,
10 Oct. 2025
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Guests staying at the Beach Club have indulgent perks like a complimentary 15-minute ride on the adorable Sorbetto Fiat boat that tools around Lake Boca.—
Angela Caraway-Carlton,
Miami Herald,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Joyride.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyride. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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