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Recent Examples of joyride
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
26 May 2026
The victims of his 119 mph joyride.
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Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
20 May 2026
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2025
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Noun
In the instance that fueled the witness-dissuasion conviction, a teen boy, John Doe 2 reportedly suffered a serious head injury after drunkenly hanging from O’Connor’s SUV — driven by another teen — then falling during a joyride in the high school parking lot.
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Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
26 May 2026
The victims of his 119 mph joyride.
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Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
20 May 2026
Verb
Now, to joyride around the skyscrapers.
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Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
11 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyride
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However, some state workers currently using public transit have questions about capacity, especially as declining state and federal transit funding puts a strain on transit agencies.
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To help businesses prepare, Georgia Commute Options encouraged employers to consider flexible schedules, transit use and remote work arrangements when possible.
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Everything is cut up and put together through chance operations into what Cage called a Musicircus.
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During the matchup, Jeter dove into the stands in the top of the 12th inning to catch a foul ball, emerging from the crowd cut up and bruised.
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Mora picked the ball up on halfway and just kept on motoring forward, moving towards two runners on the right, eventually nudging the ball through for Jorge Sanchez, who bundled the ball across for Quinones to finish.
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In the fifth, Harper lined a ball into the gap in left-center field and motored around to third base for a two-run triple.
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United Airlines also holds numerous contracts including with the Department of Defense for transport.
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The rescue recently put its transport vehicle up for sale to keep operations going.
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In the second episode, Tom spends a night in the local inn, and ends up in a crawl space with the ghost of a psychotic killer clown.
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There’s one dressed as a circus clown.
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Even most CEOs don’t have a full picture of which AI tools their teams are using.
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Perry was also spotted behind the wheel of an electric vehicle and tooled around town with Trudeau riding in the passenger seat.
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Doug Turnbull covers the traffic/transportation beat for WXIA-TV (11Alive).
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A lot of the journey has been on foot, but sometimes Cohen uses other forms of transportation, including a train to upstate New York that closely follows the historic route.
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From sailing along the islets of Daku and Naked Island, to kite surfing and paddle boarding, water activities come in troves here.
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In February of 2017, the British business magnate Richard Branson posted photos of Obama learning to kite surf off Branson’s private island, in the Caribbean.
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“Joyride.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyride. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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