raft

Example Sentences

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It sold off a raft of stores and a distribution centre – and then rented them back – to help reduce its borrowings.

From BBC

The researchers showed that multiple tubes can be connected to form rafts, which could serve as the foundation for ships, buoys, or floating platforms.

From Science Daily

The stock moved even higher on Jan. 28, when a raft of earnings served as a reassuring signal to Micron and its peers in the memory-chip and data-storage markets.

From Barron's

There’s a whole raft of studies showing that retirees your age and older are afraid to touch their retirement savings.

From MarketWatch

The EU last year also launched a raft of initiatives that it says could see its members plough an additional 800 billion euros into defence.

From Barron's