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joyridden

verb

past participle of joyride

as in automobiled

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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.

— Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026
Re-tooled with new signings, the defensive inadequacies and erratic finishing that had held the club back during his first campaign were eradicated.

— Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026

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In Spanish cities, a housing supply shortage has worsened thanks to population growth driven by immigration and a proliferation of short-term rentals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Those projects speak to her approach more broadly, which is, on balance, less car-driven than Sundwall’s.

— Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 24 Oct. 2026

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On a drizzly morning in March 2025, a bright blue dive boat motored through Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia toward the Tufts Cove generating station.

— Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Varma holed out in the outfield in Ahmed’s final over, but Varma motored to his 21-ball half-century by clubbing 15 runs of the fast bowler’s final four balls.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

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Following a string of incidents where AI models hacked websites and breached government systems during testing phases, the Federal Trade Commission is officially probing Anthropic and OpenAI over consumer harms, an insider told Axios.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
Reading their own statement about having never been hacked through a Flock camera and then downloading it on my own machine made that indisputable.

— Nilay Patel, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026

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Crowell snagged Brady Allen's pass and raced 46 yards down the right side for a 17-7 halftime lead.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Griffin Wilde, who finished with 133 receiving yards, Alex Honig and Drew Wagner caught passes for scores as Northwestern (6-1, 3-1 Big Ten) raced to a 28-3 lead late in the first half.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026

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Gutierrez allegedly dragged his girlfriend out of their home and into the street at gunpoint on Monday, where he was promptly arrested by his fellow officers.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Dalí’s body has not been dragged from the grave, but a version of him has been put to work, his likeness shaped and molded to fit the desires of another.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2026

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