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
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
They’re looking for photos and videos of the child on a raft or boat with other children, and witnesses who could have seen the child before she was pulled from the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Iraola did make a raft of changes at the break and in the second half but that is no excuse for the way they capitulated against Daniel Farke's side.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Our raft is pathetic—misshapen, odd-sized logs, braced with rope.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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
Brothers to the Rescue, a Cuban exile group that searched for rafts carrying migrants from Cuba to the US, had previously dropped anti-Castro leaflets near the Cuban coast.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
It wasn’t easy to see because the desk was stacked with books about oceans and islands; magazines about boats and rafts; videos about seabirds and animals.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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
By then he’d served as captain and guide on many California rivers, and he’d rafted the Colorado River.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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
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
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
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
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
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