raft
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The president announced on Monday he would delay the introduction of a raft of new import taxes on various Canadian goods for three days as negotiations over a trade deal continue.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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
The raft began scraping against the sand, straining to reach the waves.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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“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
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
The Indian Navy deployed a long-range maritime patrol aircraft to support the search and kept another aircraft with air-droppable life rafts on standby.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
There are about a dozen photos under a banner titled “Duct Tape Boat Regatta 2011–2018,” and each shows a variety of life-size rafts made of cardboard and duct tape.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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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
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
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
Meanwhile, the smaller rafted vessels caromed off one another like “bumper boats,” as one yachting insider later put it.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 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
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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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