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Recent Examples of joyride
Noun
Leonard Slatkin, Detroit Symphony Orchestra music director laureate, returns to Detroit this weekend for a musical joyride with the orchestra. Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 2 Nov. 2024 Drew’s Joker the Harlequin seizes the means of production and takes them on a joyride through all that is sacred to nerds. Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024 Mixing social commentary with popcorn entertainment, Sliders is a joyride through infinite Earths. Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 18 Sep. 2024 But when Agatha All Along leans into its weirdness and trusts you to piece things together, the series becomes much more of a spooky joyride that feels reflective of Schaeffer once again trying to bring a genuinely unique energy to the MCU. Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 19 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for joyride 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyride
Noun
  • The case became a flash point in the nation’s debate over racial injustice and crime, as well as the city’s ongoing struggle to deal with homelessness and mental health crises in a transit system used by millions of New Yorkers every day.
    Philip Marcelo, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
  • But finding affordable, trustworthy travel sets that are built to last can be like trying to get rest on a plane or navigating a foreign transit system — at times nearly impossible.
    Kelsey Fredricks, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • President-elect Trump's vow to deport millions of undocumented immigrants could eliminate workers from U.S. industries already projected to face shortages and cut up to 6.8% of the national gross domestic profit.
    April Rubin, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Advertisement His star turn started in the first quarter, as Lemon caught a kickoff at the goal line, cut up field and blew the game open.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The new line is expected to accommodate 250,000 travelers daily, according to Greece’s ministry of transport and infrastructure.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Rope holds found in the wood would have tied the logs together for transport via the Seine River.
    Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • The line seemingly refers to him clowning Black women on his Flagrant podcast while speaking to Shxtsngigs hosts James Duncan and Fuhad Dawodu, who apologized for laughing at his remarks.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 9 Dec. 2024
  • But getting clowned on (and tea-bagged) by your victims?
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
Verb
  • The excavator motored toward a growing pile—the wall-to-be, which followed a plan laid out in software—and an algorithm predicted how the new stone would settle onto the others.
    James Somers, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Vonk’s lawsuit accused the Neptune Society of Northern California of negligence, for the Naiad allegedly motoring at an unsafe speed and failing to keep clear of the breakwater, while no proper lookout was maintained.
    Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • For example, while a new job in a safer neighborhood can improve someone’s health, a sudden financial setback or loss of transportation can introduce new challenges.
    Sean Fogarty, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Working with the transportation department, which is primarily concerned with automobile traffic, the bike commission adds a critical focus on bicycle and scooter safety.
    Bruce Bilodeau, The Mercury News, 7 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • In addition to coveted sightings of the Florida scrub jay, birders can seek out 142 other bird species observed along the Great Florida Birding Trail within the park, including chestnut-sided warblers, Mississippi kites, and Blackburnian warblers.
    Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2024
  • In kiting, athletes race on boards that fly above the water.
    NBC News, NBC News, 23 July 2024
Verb
  • The fascia plate of the Gold Leaf Air Motion tweeter used in the speakers is tooled from a single piece of aerospace-grade aluminum.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The likely play is for the Oilers to tool the defence with what is currently on the roster, with an eye to a bold move around the trade deadline.
    Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 20 Aug. 2024

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“Joyride.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/joyride. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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