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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

Ahead of the summit, the UK and EU agreed a draft deal on removing post-Brexit checks from food and agriculture exports.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

A third-round pick in the 2023 draft, Henley has 317 tackles and five sacks over 56 career games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Just ahead of Tuesday’s trade deadline, Minnesota acquired Kirk Cousins from the Las Vegas Raiders in exchange for a third-round draft pick.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026

He was also working on his new book, Pathologies of Power, of which he had a completed first draft.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

"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

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

Lawmakers have drafted legislation that would shift funding from foreign financing to defense investments and co-production on military technologies between the U.S. and Israel, including on missile defense and counterdrone technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 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

His move to Minnesota marked the end of a significant chapter in his career, with the point guard leaving the team that originally drafted him.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

The Durham Housing Authority was finally created in 1949 and a city housing code was drafted in 1956—both measures that should have helped poor residents but, in fact, accomplished little.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

After all, yet another risk of AI improving so rapidly is that anyone drafting regulations ends up writing rules for a world that no longer exists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

"It's going through the final contours, the legal drafting, and we hope to be able to finalise that soon and operationalise that once we get competitive advantage over our peer countries," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

He sits in the darkened drafting room, surrounded by the desks of his coworkers, some piled with drawings and models, others as neat as a pin.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri


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