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Recent Examples of joyride
Noun
Michelle and Zooey are the perfect duo to bring this cinematic joyride to life—they’re both original, fearless comedians with huge hearts and a willingness to be funny on horseback. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025 Enter Scott, who specializes in fashion as a theatrical joyride. Miles Socha, Footwear News, 6 Sep. 2025 Most parking garages are more interested in keeping your car safe while you’re gone than taking it for an extended joyride. Josh Max, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 If that first season was a high-speed joyride—part Mad Max, part Mario Kart—Season 2 hit the accelerator, stretching across 10 episodes that grew bolder, stranger, and more emotionally grounded, with a finale that offers its characters a glimpse of what life beyond survival looks like. Jp Mangalindan, Time, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for joyride
Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyride
Noun
  • Detroit’s first wireless charging roadway and UCLA’s expanding project for multi-user EV transit hubs reflect rising federal support, with more expansion planned through 2026.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The planetary backspin occurs amidst two Mercury retrogrades — that's right, this transit will add to the intensity.
    Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Airlines also continue to cancel flights nationwide to meet FAA demands to cut up to 10% of flights within the next week.
    Michael Salerno, AZCentral.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The chicken, now cut up into small pieces at the lunch hour, soaks up the broth and packs an even more flavorful punch.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To evaluate its performance, researchers applied a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model called Snowbedfoam to simulate snow transport and assess the snow-drifting effects around Helioplant systems.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Prosecutors said Lopez-Oliva helped Lopez transport victims to and from the New Orleans Airport.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • This was clown stuff in a city where, per a 2024 report, someone earning the average salary ($88,647) could afford only 5 percent of rentals on the market after factoring in upfront costs such as broker’s fees and security deposits.
    Clio Chang, Curbed, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Stephen King novel that inspired two previous versions, one a TV miniseries with Tim Curry defining the evil clown Pennywise for the ages, the other a two-part theatrical release in 2017 and 2019, of which the first part was much better than the second.
    Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The hope is that the talks could clear rising tensions between the world’s two largest economies and allow the global economy to keep motoring.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The hope in Southern California is that someday soon, the two will motor the franchise to its first Super Bowl championship.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At the time, the blockades crippled transportation routes and hospital services and prompted international warnings about a humanitarian crisis in the country, which was reeling from a devastating earthquake.
    MUHIB RAHMAN, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Bike advocates, like nonprofit BikeWalkKC, co-founded by District 4 Councilor Eric Bunch, believe city ordinance changes are needed, but contend they should be focused on helping to protect cyclists and scooter operators, instead of restricting the usage of such modes of transportation.
    PJ Green November 11, Kansas City Star, 11 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • The latest rollout was a 1,400 square meter property in the upmarket Lekki district in Lagos, built on a grassy playground where children once flew kites close to the city’s lagoon.
    Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 18 July 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • But Theobald tooled the Zephyrs’ block, pushing the Tigers over the line with a 25-22 set 4 win.
    Andrew Cornelius, Twin Cities, 5 Nov. 2025
  • In the 1960s, Jay Sebring made a giant leap from middle-class Michigan boy and Navy veteran to stylist to the stars, tooling around Hollywood in his Shelby Cobra convertible and jetting off to cut the hair of Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra and more.
    Susan Young, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Joyride.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyride. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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