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Recent Examples of joyride
Noun
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 The men and women of Road Warriors for the Missing weren’t getting ready for a joyride. Lauren Lantry, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2024 The joyride continues for Disney and Pixar’s Inside Out 2 which has entered the list of Top 10 highest-grossing movies ever worldwide. Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 1 Aug. 2024 The company has plans to bring the aircraft to the Bay Area so people can go for joyrides or short trips around the region. Kristin J. Bender, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for joyride 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for joyride
Noun
  • At a deeper level, this transit taught you to separate your sense of self-worth from your bank account.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
  • While the bus system’s preferred option is a new area-wide transit tax, spending restraint would be a better solution.
    Marc Joffe, The Mercury News, 14 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • And past paintings, too, could be recycled, cut up and then reenlisted for new images.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Each morning at 3 AM Lopez is at the Fulton Fish Market and all his orders are at the restaurant kitchen by 7 AM to be weighed and cut up, scaled and filleted.
    John Mariani, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Once approved, Scottsdale’s water could bring a new era for the CAP as a local water transport system with a more complex set of operations.
    Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Devers said a first test delivery to be carried out by the end of 2024 would ascertain if the quality of the drink is maintained after transport.
    Greg McKenna, Fortune Europe, 20 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • But getting clowned on (and tea-bagged) by your victims?
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Members of the troupe will be performing feats of juggling and foot-juggling, rola bola stunts, clowning and more.
    Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
Verb
  • Not quite a Saturday morning canyon carver, instead this Benz serves perfectly as the Sunday brunch cruiser, a true time capsule from a bygone era of motoring that Mercedes, and almost every automaker, can still learn from today.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Although Kadyrov has denied sending Chechen troops to Ukraine, there have been numerous sightings of heavily armed Chechen battalions motoring through the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
    Nicholas Waller, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2015
Noun
  • For big furniture retailers, there is big waste in returns and the reverse logistics involved — from the costs to the transportation emissions.
    Diana Olick, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2024
  • The Novi Sad rail station, a significant transportation hub, had recently undergone renovations as part of a partnership between Serbia and China.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
Verb
  • In kiting, athletes race on boards that fly above the water.
    NBC News, NBC News, 23 July 2024
  • People fly kites during the celebrations to mark India's Independence Day in New Delhi on August 15, 2023.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 4 July 2024
Verb
  • Moreover, the lack of interconnection generates severe friction in workflows; tasks that should take a few seconds can take several minutes or even hours as teams jump from tool to tool to execute a simple task.
    Jonathan Fischbein, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The first two episodes of Monsters paint a portrait of the brothers that matches the first impressions most people got of them from the media: They are entitled, rich, preppy, swole dudes tooling around Los Angeles in limousines.
    Jen Chaney, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2024

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