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  • past tense form of ride.
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rid

[rid] / rɪd /


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He has been instrumental in implementing her strategy of "de-demonisation" to try and rid the party of the toxic legacy of its founder, her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was openly antisemitic.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

For construction companies, getting rid of TPS “would be a disaster,” said Arnoldo Diaz, co-coordinator of the National TPS Alliance, an advocacy group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“There’s this fear, not that it’s necessarily conscious, that we’re losing a part of ourselves when we get rid of that,” Winterich said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Hansen believes that by targeting predators, he is helping rid the world of such an entity.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026

“We can toss this on the way. Better to get rid of it entirely.”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

Borrow calls Hickathrift his countryman; the legend is that Tom Hickathrift ridded the Fenland between Lynn and Wisbech, of a monstrous giant, by slaying him with the axle-tree of his cart. 

From Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913 by James Hooper

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

So, what if ridding your home of plastic helped you finally get your partner pregnant?

From Slate ● Apr. 16, 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

We ought to be careful about ridding ourselves of all boredom, lest we lose our creativity in the process.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Hence the virus was intentionally introduced to Australia in 1950 in the hopes of ridding the continent of its plague of European rabbits, foolishly introduced in the nineteenth century.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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