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draft

[draft, drahft] / dræft, drɑft /
NOUN
something formulated; plan
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NOUN
gust of air
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The complex will have 35,000 square feet of commercial space that a draft environmental impact report described as including stores, restaurants, coffee shops, fitness studios, and childcare facilities.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2026

Jayden Daniels was the second pick of that 2024 draft behind Williams and he left Washington's defeat at Dallas with a serious injury to the same elbow he dislocated last season.

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

Under the EU draft seen by AFP, the following would apply:

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

And it wasn’t Dante Moore, Oregon’s Heisman-candidate quarterback, who could become the No. 1 pick in next year’s NFL draft.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

By 1796, he had begun to draft his last will and testament, in which he eventually made elaborate provisions to assure that all his slaves would be freed upon the death of his wife.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

The bill has been through several drafts and has been scrutinised by several Parliamentary committees and the House of Lords, which submitted 1,200 amendments.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

It’s the government itself that controls when it releases drafts and final versions of all these rules and regulations.

From Slate Aug. 25, 2026

Didn’t they circulate scores of drafts for everyone to see?

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

Harvey II is offering personal memory, meaning it will remember, for example, a lawyer’s preferences for writing drafts, making and tracking changes to texts.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

We inspected it several times a day, vigilant for signs of under- or overwatering, too much or too little sun, spider mites, drafts, chlorosis, general malaise.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Most of the examples he cited—which also included judicial opinions drafted by clerks and CEO shareholder letters written by the communications department—didn’t involve appropriation of others’ words, only purchasing the service of producing them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

However, Gurney, who was drafted in as a late replacement when Lourence Ilagan withdrew from the 32-man field, responded by taking the ninth leg.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

After finishing at the University of Minnesota in 1973, I was drafted by four teams in three different sports—baseball’s San Diego Padres, basketball’s Atlanta Hawks and Utah Stars, and football’s Minnesota Vikings.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Authorities activated a mass-casualty response plan, with 130 firefighters, five medical teams and 80 vehicles drafted in.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

“I found someone,” she said to one of them, a physical therapist named Julio who had been drafted into meal delivery now that all physical-therapy sessions had been suspended.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

A messy early attempt at drafting the bill had left Armstrong and others unhappy with Clarity’s direction, according to people involved with the negotiations.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

Some assembly members have now accused the minister of making a "U-turn", with "substantial sums of public money" spent on drafting legislation "to fix his error of judgement".

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Anthropic said the operation also ghost-wrote official testimonies intended for delivery at the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council, drafting them under "specific restrictions" that neither speech mention the UAE.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

SAG-AFTRA and the Motion Picture Editors Guild have started drafting new-media-specific contracts in response.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 3, 2026

But he was correct about the others: not even Oppenheimer had read the actual text before drafting the message to which Lawrence and Fermi had blindly signed their names.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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