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Recent Examples of joyride
Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
WeatherTech has a 60-second spot showing four older women flirting with other road passengers and spray painting trucks while enjoying a joyride in a vintage Lincoln convertible.
—Axios, 4 Feb. 2025
Related article Blue Origin launches six tourists to the edge of space after nearly two-year hiatus
Blue Origin also routinely launches its New Shepard rocket, a suborbital vehicle designed to carry groups of paying customers on 10-minute joyrides that brush the edge of space.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025
That crew, as first reported by The News, managed to take the trains out on a high-speed joyride along express tracks in Brooklyn.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Despite the stop-arms, a squad of teens — allegedly including Tuesday’s scofflaw — was able to take a pair of R trains parked on a layup track in Brooklyn on a joyride last month.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
WeatherTech has a 60-second spot showing four older women flirting with other road passengers and spray painting trucks while enjoying a joyride in a vintage Lincoln convertible.
—Axios, 4 Feb. 2025
Related article Blue Origin launches six tourists to the edge of space after nearly two-year hiatus
Blue Origin also routinely launches its New Shepard rocket, a suborbital vehicle designed to carry groups of paying customers on 10-minute joyrides that brush the edge of space.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025
That crew, as first reported by The News, managed to take the trains out on a high-speed joyride along express tracks in Brooklyn.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyride
Noun
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The government closed its main border crossing with Pakistan, effectively cutting a crucial transit point for people and goods.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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Metro’s plans ahead of the Olympics include an expansion of its transit network that would depend heavily on bus use, more bus priority lanes and faster speeds.—
Colleen Shalby,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Consider cutting up their food or serving easy-to-eat foods like smoothies.—
Smita Patel,
Verywell Health,
15 Apr. 2025
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Skrillex has never restricted his distension of sonic materials to merely supersizing his bass lines, and among other things, the voices on this album are routinely phased and retuned and cut up.—
Michaelangelo Matos,
Rolling Stone,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Carney’s closure has led to longer ambulance transport times for patients in the Dorchester and Mattapan neighborhoods, and strained emergency department services in the region, the report contends.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
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Singapore’s monetary authority said increases in the costs of food and private transport in March mainly contributed to the headline inflation.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
23 Apr. 2025
Verb
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On Sunday, Ja hopped on X to fire a few shots at 50 Cent, who clowned Ja’s appearance on The Breakfast Club last week.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
14 Apr. 2025
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The alternating worlds are meant to be playful, but Toontown especially gets exhausting quickly, with characters mugging, clowning and amplifying every limp punchline.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
8 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Those motoring to work in a Rolls-Royce aren’t being left out, either.—
Susan Campos,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Mar. 2025
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The plot is motored by their deft, defiant mouths.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Expanding access to jobs and economic opportunity, while increasing access to clean, affordable transportation options.—
Jill Locantore,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2025
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The city is on the hook for $183 million to improve streets at stations for three Metro projects under Measure M. That money could go to the transportation agency or directly to Metro, but Rubio-Cornjeo warned that the loss of transportation agency staff would pose challenges to the projects.—
Colleen Shalby,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
Verb
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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
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Saturday 🐶 Celebrate dogs and kites at the free Fest of Tails at McAllister Park, 9am-2pm.—
Megan Stringer,
Axios,
13 Mar. 2025
Verb
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For Patients: Stay Informed: Research and understand which AI tools your healthcare providers are using.—
David Henkin,
Forbes,
4 Nov. 2024
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Right now, there exists very few software tools, mostly open source by the Google team, providing early software tooling that technology teams need to start modeling.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Joyride.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyride. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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