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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

But a bill currently working its way through Parliament, the draft Conversion Practices Bill, has met with opposition from some religious groups.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

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

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

What the draft doesn’t mention is that the report was commissioned by Paramount.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

All the mirth had drained from Rose’s face, and Ophie shivered as a draft found its way around the windows and twirled through the kitchen.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

I run partial or complete drafts through a chatbot and ask what it thinks.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Go do this 10-minute play workshop, then do 90 drafts of it, and then we’ll do a reading.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 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

Like all the King’s House this room was high, red, old, bare, with a musty chill on the air as if the drafts blew in not from other rooms but from other centuries.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

He led the team that drafted the European Commission’s AI Act proposal.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 21, 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

With hundreds of thousands of men drafted to fight, labour shortages are also hitting the sector.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 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

The Selective Service caught up with him, and he was drafted.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

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

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 the speeches not mention the UAE.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

She also stays up late drafting social media posts with the president, the New York Times reported.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2026

“I frankly thought that there was still drafting and wordsmithing going on,” Wall told the judge.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

The drafting table by the windows is all but hidden in the meticulously ordered chaos of papers and diagrams and blueprints.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern




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