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raft

[raft, rahft] / ræft, rɑft /




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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

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

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

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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