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verb

ˈrīd How to pronounce ride (audio)
Definition of ridenext
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as in to tease
to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults that supervisor is always riding everyone for every little thing

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2
as in to kid
to make fun of in a good-natured way his wife couldn't resist riding him for forgetting his own birthday

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3
as in to hover
to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air a condor riding high in the sky

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4
as in to depend
to be determined by, based on, or subject (to) our plan for the party rides on whether he can come

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ride

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noun

as in transportation
a means of getting to a destination in a vehicle driven by another an organization that provides rides for senior citizens

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Recent Examples of ride
Verb
An 11-year-old girl was struck by a vehicle while riding her bicycle, police said. — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Nov. 2026 Michael Sloan, a close friend who rode motorcycles with Sanft, according to the report, confirmed his death and remembered the attorney as a devoted friend. — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026
Noun
Organizers have said the ride taking place on November 8, the day before the anniversary, is coincidental. — Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2026 Along the way Leo will take 12 flights, including two helicopter rides, give 36 speeches and visit 10 cities including Cusco, Peru, which sits more than 11,000 feet above sea level. — Carrie Kahn, NPR, 7 Nov. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ride
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ride
  1. tease
  2. kid
  3. hover
  4. depend
  5. transportation
  6. taunt
  7. joke
  8. sail
Verb
  • The show has been rumored for a while, to the point at which Leavitt actually made a supercut of all the online chatter to tease the official announcement.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026
  • In September, while teasing what would become vSphere Express, Paul Turner, VCF’s chief product officer, told The Register that Broadcom issued sales incentives that pushed its sales team to sell VCF.
    — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of tease
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  • Blake Shelton The 2017 honoree officially became stepdad to Gwen Stefani‘s kids Kingston, Zuma and Apollo in 2021.
    — Maria Yagoda, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2026
  • But kidding aside, AI used in the right way can make people smarter about their health, more so than most realize.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of kid
Verb
  • Airline and ground personnel at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport reported seeing a UFO hovering over the airport and then darting up, leaving a hole in the clouds.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Revenue collection has hovered around 17% of GDP for the last half-century (including when income-tax rates were much higher than today).
    — Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of hover
Verb
  • Storms last weekend dumped the equivalent of more than two years of water into the town's surface water supply and provided a buffer for an operation that depends heavily on underground aquifers, Huntzinger said.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2026
  • The new developments provide an additional basis for its deployment on commercial vessels, although wider adoption will depend on performance across different hull designs, operating conditions and routes.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 9 Nov. 2026
Definition of depend
Noun
  • Developed by Maxwell Aircraft, the patent-pending plane is designed to deliver a breakthrough combination of payload, range, and operational flexibility for cargo and passenger transportation.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2026
  • The European Union's transportation commissioner, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, said there were 11 more on Friday.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of transportation
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  • Any serious fan of the group might have heard those latter barnburners in concert enough for one lifetime… not that retributive murder and taunting fornication ever get too old.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Yet there Culkin is, taunting the District tributes and putting on a show for the Capitol elites in the trailers for the upcoming film.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of taunt
Verb
  • Gilbert Arenas has joked about exiling white players from the league.
    — Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Sir Patrick Stewart was not afraid to joke about his own mortality.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of joke
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  • Passengers who were set to sail on the cruise will receive a full refund and will be assisted in getting back home, according to MSC.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The ship, which had been scheduled to sail for Haifa in Israel with 940 passengers and 597 crew on board, was being evacuated as a precaution, the coast guard added.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Nov. 2026
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“Ride.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ride. Accessed 9 Nov. 2026.

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