raft
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Alonso said the raft of substitutions he felt compelled to make should be considered "part of the game".
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
US energy firms on Wednesday signed a raft of multibillion-dollar deals with Venezuela, days after the South American country agreed to grant the United States control of a huge chunk of its vast oil reserves.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 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
The key releases among a raft of U.K. data this week will include jobs figures on Tuesday and July inflation data Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
If I’d known that, I would have made just one big raft after all, because Selkie sometimes slipped down the middle and I had to hold the rafts together for her to get on again.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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Everyone onboard survived the impact - but passengers struggled to locate life vests and rafts as the plane rapidly sank.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
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
Just for a moment, she wondered if Alex Rover still wanted to write to her now the rafts were finished, but there was no one else to ask.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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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
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
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
“NOTES: “Today I rafted out into the deep pools of the creek to fish.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Activities "such as skydiving, white-water rafting, roller coasters or other amusement rides" would "fall short of the standard".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
"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
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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