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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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The surge in gray divorces is also often driven by women – who have long faced restrictive gender norms in conservative Asian societies, as well as legal, financial, and social barriers to seeking divorce.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 26 July 2026
Some of this is also validly driven by zoonotic and emerging diseases and is intended to keep our pets and us safe.

— Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 26 July 2026

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Yoshida began the top of the 10th as the automatic runner on second, but immediately motored to third on a first-pitch sacrifice bunt by Wong and scored the go-ahead run on a sacrifice fly by Seigler.

— Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2026
Eventually, Flores and Álvarez motored to the rendezvous point, where there was no sign of the Fiorella, or of the other skiff.

— Will Freeman, New Yorker, 30 June 2026

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Schloss recommends keeping devices updated and paying attention to browser warnings to lower your risk of being hacked or exposing sensitive information.

— Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 25 July 2026
OpenAI was evaluating its artificial intelligence models’ ability to exploit vulnerable software when instead the models hacked the infrastructure surrounding the test, broke containment, and attacked a real company, OpenAI revealed on July 21.

— Harry Booth, Time, 24 July 2026

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Who dragged bags of footballs onto the field before practice?

— Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 July 2026
While that shutdown ostensibly ended in mid-November, a partial government shutdown dragged on through April, snarling the Department of Homeland Security and causing long delays and confusion at airports across the country.

— Drew Pittock, USA Today, 23 July 2026

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