raft
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The EU already has a raft of laws covering data protection, artificial intelligence and online content but Brussels and campaigners argue there are gaps that leave consumers exposed to harmful digital practices.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
Ford is battling slowing sales with plans for a raft of more affordable models and its much-hyped Fathom electric pickup truck, designed to rival the low-cost and high-tech sheen of Chinese EVs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
The hard truth is that homelessness is the result of a raft of problems beyond any mayor’s full control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026
Yet that may start to change now that the stink of loserdom is starting to lift, and the party now has a raft of new leaders to buff its image.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026
It didn’t make the raft go much faster, but Alex felt better doing something.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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Some customers paddled by on rafts and boards, above what used to be the boardwalk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 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
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
Well, flying rafts don’t come with seat belts, and the rock lasers were all riled up.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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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
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
Miguel Angel Salazar-Estrada, who rafted over the Rio Grande, told Border Patrol agents his family paid $17,000 for him to be smuggled from Guatemala.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 30, 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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The theme park’s latest project is a more than $50 million indoor thrill coaster with white-water rafting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 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
Instead of all-you-can-drink wristbands, they offer adrenaline-stoking activities like fly fishing, canyoneering, snorkeling and rafting in between multicourse meals and happy hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 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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