as in to survive
to come safely through
just as we always have in the past, we'll ride out this latest crisis
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Fred, their oldest surviving child, was suspended from Princeton for cheating, then caught embezzling from his Seattle employer to feed, Church suspected, a gambling habit.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026 -
The Sox survived a scare in the ninth.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
3 May 2026
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“Ride (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ride%20%28out%29. Accessed 4 May. 2026.
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