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Meanings of joyride in English

Ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it.

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Examples for "tool"
Examples for "tool"
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The tool should help policymakers to plan future land use, she said.
Reuters
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Conclusions: RCTs are an important tool for evidence based health care decisions.
Pubmed
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Mitsotakis said the fund gave all EU members an important financial tool.
Reuters
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Many companies use credit reports as a screening tool for potential employees.
Reuters
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The Performance Measures tool arrives at an inflection point for government transparency.
Wired
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Most owners simply tool around town, so range isn't a big issue.
Wired
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Cardinals dropped in to speak to the students-andtool around with VR goggles.
Wired
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You could tool around in all-electric mode or in gas-electric mode, according to PopSci.
Wired
4
Lyft co-founder John Zimmer says most customers will tool around in robo-cars within five years.
Wired
5
The doctor turned his diagnostic tool around and the display read, "634 Greds."
Book Three: The Final Exodus
Usage of joyride in English
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This is no joyride for a few brief minutes of space-tourism weightlessness.
The Guardian
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Probably some kids out on a joyride who wanted to scare somebody.
A farewell to legs: an aaron tucker mystery
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Verdict: This nostalgic joyride has us looking forward to Warner Bros.' upcoming remake.
Wired
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Dess couldn't imagine her handing over the keys for an early morning joyride.
Blue noon
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Armstrong had his first joyride in a plane at age 6.
Reuters
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Now he's out on one of the kayaks taking a joyride.
My horizontal life: a collection of one-night stands
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We figured enough time had passed that we could disclose the little joyride.
Ebony
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This movie may not win awards, but it's a good-hearted joyride.
Reuters
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More than a visual joyride, Splendor proves that the mundane can be sublime.
Wired
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To them life was not a joyride at an amusement park.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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He wouldn't care, if someone hadn't taken the hunter on a joyride to Can-cun.
Wastelands
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Dandelions joyride in the windscreen grilles of cars and sycamores sprout in chimney pots.
The Guardian
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But crashing through a guardrail and down a ravine, that can't be a joyride.
Stash
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The Times got its second joyride in a June 3 Page One story about Bowe Bergdahl.
Reuters
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My car was so cute that probably someone couldn't resist taking it for a short joyride.
Two for the dough
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His throat constricted and his mind slammed on the brakes, chucking him from his exhilarating joyride.
"Undo": A Novel
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