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[rahyd] / raɪd /






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Cardiff Council has said it was looking at for an alternative site for the park and ride.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

When they have been effective, they have managed to ride the choppier waves while also smoothing relations with the media - providing context for inquisitive journalists and helping tamp down any simmering issues.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

And then that weighted blanket episode was just something I was talking about on stage one night, and then Tom and I were laughing about it on the van ride back to the hotel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

When the ride was unveiled, the company hailed it as among the most significant new attractions since the park opened in 1967.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Men, some alone, some in groups, ride horseback.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Six Flags, the largest amusement park operator in North America, has temporarily closed nine rides across the US and Canada as a precaution.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Six Flags announced this week that, in addition to the Goliath, it had closed the following similar rides:

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The financial case depends on enough paying rides to cover those costs and eventually recover the money spent building the fleet.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

And Tesla is eyeing autonomous San Francisco airport rides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Someday I will have a job so I can earn money & buy my own food, boat rides, & other things I need.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman

“If you hold an ETF in a taxable account, the amount of tax you’d pay to switch is prohibitive, and your best option to get rid of it is to drop dead.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

“You have said that you would get rid of him before the Olympics. What worries me about that is, I don’t think you have any idea what it takes to identify a police chief.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

“And I think that’s the realization: There’s a lot of joy in getting rid of what is unnecessary and is not pertinent anymore.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Although this often got England's winger one-against-one, teams could match England man for man in the wide areas, especially as they fatigued and off-ball runs that rid them of their markers became less common.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

“What do you mean, how did I get rid of her? It was your plan!”

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Years ago, Lewison rode Goliath back-to-back for hours at a theme-park industry event held at Six Flags Over Georgia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Mr. Sparklepants and 29 flamingo friends rode out Isaias in the bathroom.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

“I brought my nieces here 10-plus years ago, and rode it and it was really cool,” Leverton says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Huge crowds cheered and waved as he rode down the Champs-Élysées Avenue greeting followers from his open-topped popemobile.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

He’d seen lots of people on bicycles—they lived near a college and the students mostly rode bikes to class—and he’d seen other cars, and some people on foot.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold

When stocks linked to the booming artificial-intelligence trade have struggled, so-called “non-AI” stocks have ridden to the rescue, and vice versa.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Tesla CEO often says human-driven cars will become like horses today—largely ridden for fun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

"We are aware of concerns around the use of e-scooters and off-road bikes being ridden antisocially in the city centre," a spokesperson said.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

In line with the sometimes defiant sense of local "Ossie pride", Siegmund has often ridden the iconic local Simson bike, including to the polling booth Sunday in his hometown of Tangermuende.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

We had been in a truck before, but none of us had ridden inside a car.

From "Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina" by Michaela DePrince

The bond market provided its own warning on what may be overexuberance for an industry group riding the artificial-intelligence build-out — neoclouds, which are pure-play providers of cloud services.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

When the sentiment was most dour Thursday—with tremors extending across chip makers and other firms riding the AI boom—Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang spoke up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Bostock, 29, also earned a bronze for riding in the earlier rounds of the team pursuit.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Meta stock is riding the wave of excitement over Muse.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

He wished that Anastasia were home, instead of outside riding her bike, so that she could see how happy he was making Frank.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry


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