ride on (something or someone)
phrasal verb
rode on (something or someone); riding on (something or someone); rides on (something or someone)
: to depend on (something or someone)
The future of the company rides on the success of this deal.
Our hopes are riding on you.
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That happened this week, when Wilmore and Williams hitched a ride on a SpaceX Dragon docked since September at the station for a water landing Tuesday evening off the coast of Florida.
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
Throughout his first term as president, Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to leave NATO, an alliance that in his view allows other countries who don’t spend enough on their own defense to get a free ride on US security guarantees.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 17 Mar. 2025
Four astronauts are slated to ride on Orion for Artemis II.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
The researchers behind the brain plastics study think the tiny shards of plastic hitch a ride on fat molecules to get inside brain cells.
—Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
Throughout his first term as president, Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to leave NATO, an alliance that in his view allows other countries who don’t spend enough on their own defense to get a free ride on US security guarantees.
—Joshua Keating, Vox, 17 Mar. 2025
Four astronauts are slated to ride on Orion for Artemis II.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
The researchers behind the brain plastics study think the tiny shards of plastic hitch a ride on fat molecules to get inside brain cells.
—Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for ride on (something or someone)
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“Ride on (something or someone).” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ride%20on%20%28something%20or%20someone%29. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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