raft
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Marsh harriers, bearded tits, flocks of waders and overwintering ducks and geese are a regular sight for visitors, along with otters, water voles, fen raft spiders, orchids and rare sharp-leaved pondweed.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Microsoft stock and a raft of other OpenAI partners will be hoping GPT-6 Astra proves to be a hit.
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
The size of her crowds has ballooned over the past 12 months, and when listeners discover her tracks, they often cling to them like a raft in a storm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
On her solo recordings at the time, Parton included a raft of songs about poor children in trouble.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
“And besides, what is useless about defending our raft against the cottonmouths? And finding Ragginold! And saving my monocle from the raging mob!”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
“He’s landing rockets on robot drone rafts in the ocean, and you’re saying he doesn’t know what he’s doing,” Ellison rebuffed critics at the time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
No, the truly strange thing — still remarkable to experience among thousands — is the way their fame is grounded in epic rafts of sci-fi nerdiness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Brothers to the Rescue, a Cuban exile group that searched for rafts carrying migrants from Cuba to the US, had previously dropped anti-Castro leaflets near the Cuban coast.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Photos shared by the Royal Thai Navy showed heavy black smoke billowing from the hull and superstructure of the Thai-registered Mayuree Naree, with life rafts floating in the water.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
He taught Mona and Callie to float too; all three of them bobbed out there like rafts, together.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Chris Brown, co-owner of the rafting business Whitewater Voyages, looked out over a boulder-strewn part of the stream where he had rafted a month earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2025
The first mammal from South America discovered in the older beds was from a primate species, which is presumed to have rafted across the seaway.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024
In Wyoming, the Thomases fished, rafted on the Snake River and sat by a campfire overlooking the Teton Range with the other couples.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2023
In the past four years, Dr. Moore rafted the Colorado River, zip lined on Camano Island, and went heli-hiking in the Bugaboo range in British Columbia.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2020
I still couldn’t catch the old tiger, so I rafted to shore and got Mr. Jacket.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
"I used to be a person who loved the outdoors, canoeing, kayaking and white water rafting to where I am now and I just want to get back to that."
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
Marczak said he had begun the film almost by accident, when he and his wife were rafting down the river thinking about a fiction project when they ran into trouble.
From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026
Longer races, the ones Crane is involved in, can last several days and include running, mountain biking, climbing, white-water rafting and rappelling over courses that extend for hundreds of miles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
A British woman has died on a white-water rafting excursion in the French Alps.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2025
When I was finally allowed to read it, I very well knew this was no simple tale of rafting down a river but the everlasting story of America itself, with all our glory and shame.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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