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Recent Examples of joyride
Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Someone stole a Clear Creek County shuttle bus that was parked in Georgetown on Friday afternoon and took it on a joyride on Interstate 70, speeding through a crash scene and nearly hitting emergency workers in the road.
—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2025
Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
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Noun
The teaser also shows Marcello touching Emily's leg at dinner, giving her a smile during a joyride and the two sharing an intimate kiss in bed.
—Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Someone stole a Clear Creek County shuttle bus that was parked in Georgetown on Friday afternoon and took it on a joyride on Interstate 70, speeding through a crash scene and nearly hitting emergency workers in the road.
—Katie Langford, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
Now, to joyride around the skyscrapers.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyride
Noun
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The gambit worked to an extent; both agreed to lower tariffs on several of each other’s industries, causing Trump to blast Carney for purportedly turning Canada into a transit point for Chinese goods heading to the United States.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Baltimore-area schools called another snow day and transit officials worked to restore limited service.—
Hope Hunt,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Jan. 2026
Verb
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By the third period, with his nose cut up, Kesselring was on the ice in the final minute of the game, helping to get it to overtime.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2026
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To meet that goal, the grantmaker will cut up to 500 of its 2,375 staff positions by 2030, including some open roles that may remain unfilled.—
Stephanie Beasley,
Fortune,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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While flat structures work well in many systems, one-dimensional forms offer advantages in applications that require fast transport or mechanical reinforcement.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Jan. 2026
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Alongside metabolism, the team also measured reproductive hormones and blood parameters linked to oxygen transport.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Welcome to Derry season 2, including whether Skarsgård will be back to clown it up as Pennywise.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
15 Dec. 2025
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The parade, which started on Manhattan's Upper West Side and closed at the iconic Macy's Herald Square flagship store on 34th Street, included dozens of balloons, floats, clown groups and marching bands.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
28 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Still Talking, her final book, will star the same wonderful characters motoring through their days on tides of chat.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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Wall Street motored higher through a remarkably calm summer thanks to euphoria around artificial-intelligence technology and strong profit reports from companies.—
Stan Choe,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Jan. 2026
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The White Stadium project is moving forward without a comprehensive assessment of its environmental, transportation, and economic impacts — an absence that is not procedural but consequential.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
25 Jan. 2026
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Even its parking garage advances the mission, offering EV charging stations to cut transportation emissions.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
25 Jan. 2026
Verb
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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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Spending a few minutes tooling around on ChatGPT-3’s website, and if not an oracle in silicon, the program is unequivocally able to produce writing at about the level of a B-freshman composition paper.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Kansas utilized its sales tax and revenue (STAR) bonds tool to lure the Chiefs across the state line 20 months after the four-time Super Bowl champions saw a ballot measure rejected in Jackson County.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
18 Jan. 2026
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“Joyride.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyride. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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