raft
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The raft of filings are reminiscent of SpaceX’s hotly anticipated initial public offering in June.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 28, 2026
Locals share where to eat, soak, hike and raft in one of the West’s least crowded wine regions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Nigeria's finance minister unveiled a raft of measures Thursday aimed at cushioning against energy shocks as the country prepares to go to the polls, including a petrol discount for public transport operators.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
US energy firms have this year signed a raft of multi-billion-dollar deals with Venezuela, which has agreed to grant the United States control of a huge chunk of its vast oil reserves.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
His undead joints melted, dropping him to the raft.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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A Bulgarian vessel was close by, but when they arrived all they saw was an overturned boat and rafts as well as life jackets.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
As he and two other crew members scrambled to grab onto debris and rafts, they realized that one of them was missing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
AFP images showed residents using rafts and inflated boats to reach higher ground with the help of the state's disaster response officials.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 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
They board ferries and cabin cruisers, rafts and fishermen’s boats.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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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
In June, they rafted the South Fork of the American River, along with stops in Old Sacramento and, last of all, Columbia State Historic Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 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
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
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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
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
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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