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The president signed a raft of executive orders last year with an aim of ushering in a nuclear-energy “renaissance.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

That comes as President Bola Tinubu has engaged in a raft of reforms, hailed by economists and investors, including liberalising the naira currency exchange rate, overhauling the tax code and removing a costly fuel subsidy.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

The European Central Bank will announce an interest-rate decision, while the U.K. will see a raft of key data releases, including inflation, just as a new prime minister takes office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Premier League referees cannot weigh in with a raft of penalties in the first few weeks of the season as that would be unsustainable.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

The raft began scraping against the sand, straining to reach the waves.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

Beyond transportation and infrastructure, the team also demonstrated that rafts made from superhydrophobic tubes could capture energy from moving water.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2026

Forty thousand years ago, those crossings may have been achieved by bamboo rafts, low-tech but seaworthy watercraft still in use in coastal South China today.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Pamina was operating “without sufficient competent crew,” states a Feb. 23 filing by Seattle resident Nicholas Leede, whose 39-foot sailboat suffered $62,117 in damage while rafted in the back row.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 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

Activities "such as skydiving, white-water rafting, roller coasters or other amusement rides" would "fall short of the standard".

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 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