- past tense form of ride.
rid
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Delta has gotten rid of Michel et Augustin shortbread square cookies, the highlight of the Comfort+ snack basket for me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
But washing alone might not be enough to rid produce of the parasite.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
But Liverpool Crown Court heard Owen had "fabricated the events" to "get rid of the vehicle" and get out of his finance agreement - and later even sold the story to tabloid newspapers.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Jones: I think we’ll see more diseases start coming back that we thought we had gotten rid of.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Aunt Kitty certainly was keen on getting rid of me the second she saw an opportunity.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
You will appreciate the richer flavor and be happy to have finally ridded yourself of those unattractive scrambled-egg bits of white that invariably dot your final product when whole eggs are used in your recipe.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024
"My wife and I both had a really ridded our house as much as possible of single-use plastic," he says.
From Fox News ● Dec. 20, 2021
That may irk some users who thought they’d ridded themselves of the algorithm for good.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2018
As presiding officer of the Senate, he ridded himself of the officer's throne and took to an ordinary chair.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fra Battista had been quietly ridded the very next morning: unfrocked, he took the way of the Brenner and the mountains, and Veronese history knows nothing further certainly of him.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Yaroslavsky credits Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe program for ridding her district of big homeless encampments, but said more data is needed to ensure the programs are cost-effective.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
It was Mr. Landsbergis, who as parliament chairman in March 1990, led Lithuania to declare it was ridding itself of the U.S.S.R.—the first of the 15 Soviet republics to do so.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
"So, we are now colonizing that central space, and the bacterium is essentially ridding the body of the tumor."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 24, 2026
In fall 2024, many of us were ridding our kitchens of a very common utensil, thanks to a piece in the Atlantic that instructed us to, “Throw Out Your Black Plastic Spatula.”
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2026
“Jefferson sold several young men with a propensity for running away,” Monticello historian Lucia Stanton explains, “in accordance with his policy of ridding his domain of disruptive elements.”
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
