variants
or chiefly dialectal rid
1
as in teased
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 kidded
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 hovered
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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Recent Examples of rode
Despite missing LeBron James for the entire season so far, and Luka Dončić and Austin Reaves for multiple games, the Lakers got off to a 7-2 start and rode a five-game winning streak into a five-game road trip, beginning Saturday night with the Atlanta Hawks.
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Law Murray, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
To keep a steady pace, cattle rode in show wagons.
—Patrick Salland, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2025
The massive night for Democrats raised alarms among Republicans, who rode concerns about the economy to victory in 2024 and may be on the other side of that dynamic in 2026.
—Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 7 Nov. 2025
In the clip, which appeared to be filmed by someone in the stands at the horse show, Grace rode her horse across a field before jumping over a fence as the crowd clapped and cheered.
—Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
Two days after Democrats rode concerns about consumer costs to big election wins in Virginia, New Jersey, and other parts of the country, the second-term Republican president tried to reclaim the economy as one of his administration's bedrock efforts.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
But claims from both sides that the young socialist rode a wave of working-class anger are wide of the mark.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Meanwhile, Larry Thomas — who played the character on Seinfeld — rode a few minutes of screen time into an Emmy nomination and a lifetime of fan conventions.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
Ed Koch famously rode the bus to his 1978 mayoral inauguration.
—Evan Friss, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
Law Murray, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
To keep a steady pace, cattle rode in show wagons.
—Patrick Salland, Kansas City Star, 7 Nov. 2025
The massive night for Democrats raised alarms among Republicans, who rode concerns about the economy to victory in 2024 and may be on the other side of that dynamic in 2026.
—Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 7 Nov. 2025
In the clip, which appeared to be filmed by someone in the stands at the horse show, Grace rode her horse across a field before jumping over a fence as the crowd clapped and cheered.
—Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
Two days after Democrats rode concerns about consumer costs to big election wins in Virginia, New Jersey, and other parts of the country, the second-term Republican president tried to reclaim the economy as one of his administration's bedrock efforts.
—Zac Anderson, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
But claims from both sides that the young socialist rode a wave of working-class anger are wide of the mark.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Meanwhile, Larry Thomas — who played the character on Seinfeld — rode a few minutes of screen time into an Emmy nomination and a lifetime of fan conventions.
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
Ed Koch famously rode the bus to his 1978 mayoral inauguration.
—Evan Friss, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rode
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The duo also teased what to expect from Season 2 of The Pitt.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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Earlier this week, Ballerini teased the forthcoming release by posting a video on her socials that showed Ballerini swinging on a swingset in a park.—
Jessica Nicholson,
Billboard,
6 Nov. 2025
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Housing costs have skyrocketed in the years following the outbreak of the pandemic, and mortgage rates have hovered between 6 percent and 7 percent since 2022, chipping away at Americans’ purchasing power.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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Meanwhile, bitcoin slid almost 3% and hovered around $100,650 in a sign of risk-off sentiment.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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The United States has depended on foreign suppliers of TNT since the mid-1980s, when the last domestic TNT facility shut down largely due to increasingly stringent environmental regulations.—
Macklin Fishman,
CNBC,
10 Nov. 2025
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Historically, concrete production depended heavily on natural sand and gravel extracted from riverbeds, a practice that led to severe environmental degradation in some regions.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Nov. 2025
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On another occasion, a group of students tripped him to the ground, put a cheese crown made of paper on his head, and then taunted him with actual cheese.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
29 Oct. 2025
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While Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched a one-run complete game in a historic outing for Los Angeles at the Rogers Centre, all eyes were on superstar Shohei Ohtani after he was booed and taunted by the Toronto crowd in Game 1.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
26 Oct. 2025
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After the couple handed Clarkson a paper with their vows and requested her to read it, the three-time Grammy Award winner joked that she wasn’t officially allowed to officiate.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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Doughnuts and coffees in hand, some of them joked about seeing each other look happy for the first time in weeks.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
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The Osumi Strait transit also indicates that the Kaiyangxing sailed around three of Japan's four main islands—Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu—excluding Hokkaido.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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He was challenged by former Council Member Lisa Sanchez and Lynn Bradescu, but Hallyburton sailed to victory, garnering more than 70% of the vote.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
4 Nov. 2025
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In another photo obtained by TMZ, Matthews also mocked Perry’s headline-making photo of her kissing the ground following her return to Earth.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
10 Nov. 2025
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Elites stirred up a now familiar moral panic about commerce corrupting letters and mocked Grub Street even as its writers built the first modern freelance economy and mass-print culture.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
8 Nov. 2025
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This isn't the first time a tariff revenue check to the American people has been floated.—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 2025
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Trump has frequently floated the idea of tariff rebate checks.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Rode.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rode. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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