raft
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Rising Treasury yields have put pressure on yield-sensitive investments like utilities, real-estate investment trusts and home-builder stocks, while the market has fallen back on a familiar life raft: tech stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
The rollout of agents like Meta’s Muse, which can send emails, make purchases and take a raft of other actions on users’ behalf, makes them all but inevitable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
In recent months, states across NATO's eastern flank have faced a raft of hostile actions from Moscow and Minsk ranging from drone incursions to cyberattacks.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Paddles for the life raft so the Clippers can change directions and make better decisions — hopefully with better decision-makers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
He felt like he was in the middle of a raging river without a raft.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
The ship was equipped with 250 life jackets, two lifeboats and six inflatable rafts, Edghill said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
“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
The Indian Navy deployed a long-range maritime patrol aircraft to support the search and kept another aircraft with air-droppable life rafts on standby.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
It wasn’t easy to see because the desk was stacked with books about oceans and islands; magazines about boats and rafts; videos about seabirds and animals.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
These vessels were anchored and at times rafted together waiting for mother ships to come and be refilled around the Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex on the Malaysian side of the Singapore Strait.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
By then he’d served as captain and guide on many California rivers, and he’d rafted the Colorado River.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2023
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
Young people go white-water rafting at the Alzar School, which splits time between Idaho and Chilean Patagonia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Activities "such as skydiving, white-water rafting, roller coasters or other amusement rides" would "fall short of the standard".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Dollywood’s latest project: a more than $50 million, first-of-its-type indoor ride that combines a thrill coaster with white-water rafting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 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
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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