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Recent Examples of joyride
Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Loading your audio article A wee bit tipsy man on a scooter somehow blew past two checkpoints and roamed around Rikers Island before his nighttime joyride was cut short by security, court records show.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 22 Nov. 2024
Pete Docter recalled stealing one of his co-workers cars and taking it for a joyride.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2024
Leonard Slatkin, Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director laureate, returns to Detroit this weekend for a musical joyride with the orchestra.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2024
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Then a soldier in a battle helmet took the vehicle on a joyride, zipping up and down a sidewalk, at one point slowing down for a professor on a bicycle.
—Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
Loading your audio article A wee bit tipsy man on a scooter somehow blew past two checkpoints and roamed around Rikers Island before his nighttime joyride was cut short by security, court records show.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 22 Nov. 2024
Pete Docter recalled stealing one of his co-workers cars and taking it for a joyride.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 Aug. 2024
Leonard Slatkin, Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director laureate, returns to Detroit this weekend for a musical joyride with the orchestra.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2024
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The transit agency, TriMet, says that the project came in under budget, and the city built electricity-generating wind turbines on the bridge using the extra money.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacramento Bee,
18 Jan. 2025
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Some of those homes will be built thanks to the MBTA Communities law that led 116 towns to approve more building near transit stations.—
Mike Deehan,
Axios,
17 Jan. 2025
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Contra Costa County Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority has asked its customers to cut up their trees and place them in the organics cart for a month-long effort to clean up Christmas trees.—
Chase Hunter,
The Mercury News,
3 Jan. 2025
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At Dos Reales the process begins the night before when the pork and other ingredients are cut up and refrigerated overnight.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
2 Jan. 2025
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Lymph fluid transports toxins, viral particles and more between the lymph nodes, where they are turned into cellular waste and transported to kidney and liver for bodily removal.—
Jessica Ourisman,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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On Wednesday, the Los Angeles County health officer issued an order to ensure the safe removal, transport and disposal of fire debris resulting from the wildfires.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
17 Jan. 2025
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It's taken my focus away as well, so maybe a little less clowning and more focus on the actual victory.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes,
21 Dec. 2024
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Yes — the face of an entire horror franchise with his twisted portrayal of It clown Pennywise — was more than ready to set free Robert Eggers‘ Nosferatu.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Dec. 2024
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And even as the year winds down, Sabrina is still motoring full speed ahead.—
Meghan Mahar,
Billboard,
23 Dec. 2024
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How to Get There Most out-of-state visitors fly into Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, rent a car, and motor the 126 miles north via Highway 260.—
Tasha Zemke,
Outside Online,
15 Nov. 2024
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Different rules for elite players are nothing new, and Butler has had and would continue to have different rules with a return (separate road accommodations, his own transportation to games).—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
8 Jan. 2025
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The result is that key questions about the operation and maintenance of an unproven transportation system are unanswered.—
Daniel Rothberg,
ProPublica,
8 Jan. 2025
Verb
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In addition to coveted sightings of the Florida scrub jay, birders can seek out 142 other bird species observed along the Great Florida Birding Trail within the park, including chestnut-sided warblers, Mississippi kites, and Blackburnian warblers.—
Terry Ward,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Dec. 2024
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In kiting, athletes race on boards that fly above the water.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
23 July 2024
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While in his mid-twenties, Olea would tool around the Key — or take a jaunt to Coconut Grove — with a carload of teenage girls.—
Clara-Sophia Daly,
Miami Herald,
2 Jan. 2025
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Researchers were tooling around this second century Roman cemetery and found a body.—
Popular Science Team,
Popular Science,
20 Nov. 2024
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“Joyride.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyride. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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