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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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Harvard-Westlake had become known as the school for pitchers after producing first-round draft picks Jack Flaherty, Lucas Giolito and Max Fried.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

I just think that movie could pick up a lot of nominations, and if in fact you were doing a fantasy draft, I think it would be really strong on your roster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Next week, ministers will unveil draft spending plans for all public services for the 2027-28 financial year.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

“I draft the requests, wait until it’s an appropriate point of the working day and send them out,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

I could only hope she’d read it during her 12.5 minutes a day of downtime, even if she couldn’t resist editing it before returning it to me for corrections and a clean second draft.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

"It also included independent and expert-led metadata analysis of drafts written by the author."

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026

Grinstein recalls working on a screenplay with his co-writer and using Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, to generate initial drafts for them to edit and refine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

“First drafts DONE,” she wrote in the caption.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

It said it gathered all the working versions of the novel and hired an outside party to analyze the various drafts.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

Her principal worries seemed to be whether her parents had slept well, how they were feeling, whether they were sitting in drafts.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

When he was drafted into Mercedes last year - to replace Hamilton, no less - there were those who said he was too inexperienced.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

The Rams drafted Williams in the fifth round out of Notre Dame in 2022, and selected Corum in the third round out of Michigan in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Instead of a final declaration, the source expects a chair summary drafted by the United States to be published from this week's meeting.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

On the other side lies a group of less obvious power brokers: the four professors who drafted the ballot measure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Doc Daneeka had been drafted and shipped to Pianosa as a flight surgeon, even though he was terrified of flying.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Secretary of State Marco Rubio supervised the drafting of a classified memo warning that Huang had a personal relationship with Alice Huang, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

Carberry added the process was complex, saying that drafting job adverts is "best left to good employer practice rather than government regulation".

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Many would-be landlords cringe at the legal costs of buying a property and drafting a lease.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

In the essay Robinson said his credentials include overseeing the writing of safety reports on 12 advanced model product launches and leading the drafting of OpenAI's Preparedness Framework.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

The drafting table was bare except for a blotter and a Sox mug full of mechanical pencils.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen


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