ride out
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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Iran's leaders will now be calculating how to ride out the war, how to survive and how to manage its consequences.
From BBC
The sisters’ presence near Hydesville encouraged daily crowds, who rode out to gawk at the original Fox cottage, then continue on to David’s farm to see the Fox girls in person.
From Literature
As recently as the past decade, IBM has ridden out the transition to software as a service and cloud-native computing, or the development of applications that can integrate into any cloud environment.
From Barron's
The move shook confidence in the sector, as traders questioned whether investors in asset managers’ funds are willing to ride out a difficult spell.
But gale force winds led to the crew and tugboats having to evacuate and the ship was left to ride out the storm for several hours.
From BBC
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