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[raft, rahft] / ræft, rɑft /




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Ms. Bridgers is exceptionally good at writing phrases that read slightly awkwardly on paper but come alive as music, and has an eye for the telling detail that carries a raft of associations.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

For MOTS-c and a raft of other peptides widely available online, no comparable evidence exists.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

Each of these viruses comes with a raft of symptoms ranging from unpleasant to, in some cases, fatal—fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, shock, organ failure.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

"We're famously a wet country but there's been a whole raft of really positive research coming out of the States that's basically working on the premise that water doesn't burn," he said.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

But Josie had already dived down under the raft and begun swimming for the ladder.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

“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

Well, flying rafts don’t come with seat belts, and the rock lasers were all riled up.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

However, our drilling efforts recovered the first cores of this material after it has spent tens of millions of years being rafted across the seafloor as Earth's tectonic plates spread apart.

From Science Daily Dec. 11, 2025

Ann Willis, California regional director for the environmentalist group American Rivers, said that when she’s rafted on the Klamath previously, the water downstream of the dams has been warm, green and smelly.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 24, 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

Miguel Angel Salazar-Estrada, who rafted over the Rio Grande, told Border Patrol agents his family paid $17,000 for him to be smuggled from Guatemala.

From Washington Times Jul. 30, 2023

“NOTES: “Today I rafted out into the deep pools of the creek to fish.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Later, Whittaker and his family went on skiing and rafting trips with Robert and Ethel Kennedy and their children.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 15, 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

A British woman has died on a white-water rafting excursion in the French Alps.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2025

Both the Guisane and Durance are popular rivers for white water rafting, fed by glaciers and snowmelt in the spring.

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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