raffle

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The first edition of the raffle was won by a 25-year-old American from Pennsylvania in 2013, with funds raised to help preserve the Lebanese city of Tyre - a Unesco World Heritage Site.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

To help towards that, the church sold raffle tickets to win the painting by Suffolk-born Hambling, which initially it hoped would raise £10,000, but had brought in £13,000 by January.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

When the two-hour movie ended, one attendee won the big raffle prize, which included “Waiting to Exhale” on DVD — and a DVD player to play it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2026

The firm’s insurance chief of 39 years, Ajit Jain, once crafted a policy insuring Pepsi against having to award a $1 billion raffle prize.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

But one night, when nobody in town wanted to hear about the rabbit raffle any more, he heard a noise by the courtyard door.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez