ridding

present participle of rid

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ridding After seeing how her husband was ridding Buddah of all the mud in his fur, Treasure couldn't resist capturing a video and sharing it on TikTok (@treasuregrill). Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025 But simultaneously preserving Patagonia’s independence and ridding the Chouinard and his family of their wealth would necessitate a creative approach to the handling of the company’s equity. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025 As of June, Sam's Club was 96% of the way to its goal of ridding its food of artificial colors and other ingredients. Alina Selyukh, NPR, 8 Sep. 2025 This filtration system ensures that your floors are getting their most thorough clean, while also ridding your space of irritants like dust that can cause allergy flare-ups. Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025 As in earlier days, each side dreams of ridding itself of the other. Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025 Working alongside newer officers Stacy Sheridan (Heather Locklear), Vince Romano (Adrian Zmed), and Jim Corrigan (James Darren), Hooker dedicates himself to ridding the streets of Los Angeles of dangerous criminals, one collar at a time. EW.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ridding
Verb
  • Commissioner Gary West made the motion to accept the new land use designation, relieving Josh‘s of its itinerant status despite the business being a fixture in town since the 1990s.
    Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 15 Sep. 2025
  • This process may help your mouth hold onto moisture, possibly preventing or relieving dry mouth.
    Lauren O'Connor, Health, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This keeps your presence consistent while freeing you from daily distractions and unhelpful comparisons.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Safety tips for solo travel Traveling by yourself can feel hugely freeing.
    Lucy Handley, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Perhaps the most gratifying aspect of the investigation for the detectives was clearing Leslie's husband of any involvement in the murder.
    Claire Lempert, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • A couple-hundred miles east and 180 years earlier, in 1795, an Ontario farmer named John McIntosh came upon a couple dozen apple trees while clearing brush on his property.
    Mark Dent, HubSpot, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Ridding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ridding. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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