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[rahyd] / raɪd /






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She chats up her neighbors, and asks them what they need help with or if they need resources or a ride.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

It has made their permits and approvals strictly a state business, hoping to offer developers a smoother ride and to attract jobs and a larger tax base.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

During a ride in a Southern California desert, sales executive Scott Nelson stopped his dirt bike, pulled out a rifle and shot his old iPod.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

So why couldn’t this just ride with that, in a “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” kind of way?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

“By the way, I went for a ride in it last night.”

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

One of her friends, 80-year-old Teresa Corona Garza of San Juan, has relied on Gomez for rides to the polls for some time now.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

Waymo now provides more than 500,000 paid rides per week across 15 US metropolitan areas and aims to reach one million weekly rides by the end of the year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

"Most rides are nowhere near the size of the coaster," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

Their wild rides hold some useful investing lessons, though, such as what made them so valuable in the first place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Always carrying his gun, he went on grueling horseback rides and punishing hikes through the woods and fields, keeping a lookout for wildlife specimens to add to his collection.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

He also conducts what he calls a “self-audit” to rid himself of acronyms such as RMD, which stands for required minimum distribution, and QCD for qualified charitable distribution.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

But maybe the solution is to get rid of it, full stop?

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

"We were not strategically outdone. There are tonnes of positives to take out of tonight, but one or two things we must get rid of, like losing possession."

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

“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

“Too bad it doesn’t actually work. But it does get rid of sweaty skin!”

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

Perhaps at some point the old soldier left the Hudson Valley and rode west, with opportunity in mind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Meanwhile the share who rode as passengers increased to 54% from 45%.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

A warning system would have offered little help for ships in the immediate vicinity, but it could have provided perhaps 10 minutes of warning for those who rode out the harrowing tsunami farther away.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 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

Cunningham rode into the surf so that the horse was in water up to his knees, and the sea licked at the lord’s boots.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

More than 16 million people have ridden X2, Magic Mountain said in its statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

I’ve ridden 22 airplanes so far in 2026, to the Midwest, East Coast and Japan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

I’ve ridden out the crashes, bought the dips, and every time I’ve been rewarded for holding on.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Having ridden 60 winners since the start of May, Osborne is currently sitting eighth in the Flat Jockeys Championship, and is open about dreaming of being champion jockey in the future.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The sergeant noticed that the horse was wet with sweat and had been ridden hard.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

Picard is a man given to philosophical debates and genteel pursuits like horseback riding and fencing.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

He'd landed a number of minor film roles: including playing Guinevere's father in Excalibur, a minstrel in Dune, and a riding instructor in Little Lord Fauntleroy.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

STMicroelectronics stock has nearly doubled in value since the year began, riding a wave of investor fervor around AI that lifted global semiconductor stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

It’s also attributable to an immensely painful derisking and deleveraging process among domestic retail investors who had been riding the stock market’s blistering rally throughout 2025 and the first half of 2026.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The one that Cassiopeia had been riding dropped into a crouch and shifted its weight onto its hindquarters, as if to pounce.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood


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