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joyridden

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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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Sold as a two-year-old in 2006 for a record $16 million, the horse raced three times, never finishing better than third.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
An ominous darkness raced across the sky, while rusty-red hues illuminated the clouds, creating an almost apocalyptic scene.

— Anthony Wood, Space.com, 29 Oct. 2026

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The Euphemism Problem In April 2017, a passenger was dragged off a United Airlines flight in Chicago.

— Ronn Torossian, Forbes.com, 6 Nov. 2026
The ship dragged its anchor along the seabed for about 80 miles, damaging two telecommunications cables, according to a court statement.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026

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