ride
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If you host friends at your apartment because no one wants to spend $90 before the Uber ride home, have you somehow opted out of social life altogether?
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The amusement park closed the X2 ride July 12, and it remains closed now, a Six Flags Entertainment Corporation spokesperson said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
It’s often more efficient than a plane ride, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
"Would certainly love them to come along for the ride and journey because they carry maybe more weight than anybody in the game and I have a lot of time for that."
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Luckily for me, Dad is completely oblivious to the fact that I spent most of the bus ride home in tears.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
"The race continues. There will be a sporting competition, but not a party... This Saturday, the Volta rides for Finlay."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Zoox, Amazon’s robotaxi effort, launched its first paid, driverless rides in Las Vegas earlier this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
The rocky boat rides were always worth it in the end for Croteau, who moved from New Hampshire to Syros in September after traveling the world with her family for three years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
A ballroom dancer who coddles his pet rats—Fred and Ginger—Declan rides a moped that his colleague, Sara Xiu, describes as “that pitiful hair-dryer on wheels.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The blooming trees and flowers of spring lifted Garfield's spirits, and he enjoyed taking his horse on rides by the Potomac River.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
There are measures related to getting rid of the income cap that could help get the program closer to solvency, however.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
It would be “a generational project, but that’s okay. It took a generation or two to get rid of them; it can take the same to bring them back.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"Even after the walk, he's not getting rid of me," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The school has decided to get rid of its branded blazer, the branded pinafore, branded shorts and PE jogging bottoms.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
When our little caravan finally reached the canyon, a mountain lion jumped out and chased the sheep, and I was sure I would be rid of you.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
He then rode off to find adults further up the Taff Trail for help, who took them to his friend's house.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Back then, Supreme Court justices “rode circuit”—they literally rode horses or traveled by carriage to hear cases within the circuit they oversaw.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
On May 14, he rode an Amtrak train back to L.A. and made his way to Torrance, which he had previously visited to see where scenes from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” were filmed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
He drove a big truck, rode a good horse, and removed his hat when he introduced himself.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Don Quixote was again on his Rocinante; Sancho rode the only mount he had, a grayish donkey he called Rucio because of its color.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Everyone else piled into their cars, thinking Courtney had ridden with someone else, but she had gone to her room to find something.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
ATG has ridden a theater resurgence as attendance numbers have climbed postpandemic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Bloom Energy has indeed ridden on the coattails of AI excitement and investors’ quests for companies positioned to benefit from powering data centers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Class 2 bikes can also be ridden by people of any age, but are equipped with a throttle and reach a maximum speed of 20 mph.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
This visit was a long way from my first trip to Kenya in 1991, when I’d ridden around with Barack in matatus and pushed Auma’s broken-down VW along the side of a dusty road.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
But Trump’s latest posts appear less interested in interrogating Washington than in imagining him as a collaborator — writing, riding and offering design tips to his 21st-century successor.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Scientists say they're increasingly concerned about the rise in social media videos showing people swimming too close to sharks, touching or even riding them.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
He added, accurately, that control of Congress could be riding on it.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
I’d get out to the barn in Burbank to go horseback riding.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
He had seen whole logs riding on top of the water in Lake Washington when he visited his cousins in Seattle last year.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
