- past tense form of ride.
rid
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Naghten doesn't think they would get rid of it.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
There’s an industry of professionals who may be able to help you decide which items to get rid of and where they might go.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Next week we’ll ask, “In response to the ‘Cornell 7’ case, some suggest entirely getting rid of sororities and fraternities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
“A sanitizer. We use it to get rid of surface germs. It’s a clean lab, so we try to minimize contaminants.”
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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
The burning thought of Jehane cut off, sixty feet below him, yet far as she could ever be, swept across Richard's mind like a roaring wind, and ridded the room for wilder guests.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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
Some adherents advise parents that the disturbing effects indicate that the treatment is working, ridding the body of impurities, or that the parents should alter the dosage.
From Salon ● Dec. 15, 2025
The hardest part, consultants say, is ridding parents of the notion they must get their kid into a “name-brand” school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Maybe she’d be ridding herself of something gross, even temporarily.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
