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Recent Examples of joyride
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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyride
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In addition to transit delays and cancellations brought on by the torrential downpour, two people were also found dead in their basements, per the New York Times and ABC News, citing the New York Police Department.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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City and transit officials have announced safety initiatives specifically targeting buses, trains and uptown since the stabbing.—
Ryan Oehrli,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Oct. 2025
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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
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Guests ate slices of Chantilly sheet cakes from Whole Foods, which were cut up in the back and served with the rest of the desserts.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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These are especially useful for taking public transport, grabbing a quick coffee, or leaving a small tip at a restaurant.—
Asia London Palomba,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
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According to the team, the resultant materials, which include oxides of tungsten, titanium, and niobium, have high surface areas, stable crystalline grains, and regular pores—all essential for quick ion transport.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Oct. 2025
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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
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Bill Skarsgård returns as killer clown Pennywise.—
EW Staff,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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Autonomous driving has caught the imagination of tech companies and the auto industry, who predict a sea change in the transportation sector.—
Rob Nikolewski,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Advertisement Mamdani’s political success is largely credited to a media-savvy campaign that centered affordability in one of the world’s most expensive cities, with Mamdani vowing to levy New York’s ultra-rich to pay for childcare, transportation, and even grocery stores.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
5 Nov. 2025
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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
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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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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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Guests staying at the Beach Club have indulgent perks like a complimentary 15-minute ride on the adorable Sorbetto Fiat boat that tools around Lake Boca.—
Angela Caraway-Carlton,
Miami Herald,
4 Oct. 2025
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“Joyride.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyride. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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