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In September, Beijing unveiled a raft of support measures, including lower interest rates for some businesses and subsidies for property buyers, in an effort to boost the economy.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Plain speaking Education Minister Leighton Andrews called the results a "wake-up call" for a "complacent" system and introduced a new raft of reforms.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

US energy firms have this year signed a raft of multi-billion-dollar deals with Venezuela, which has agreed to grant the United States control of a huge chunk of its vast oil reserves.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Rising Treasury yields have put pressure on yield-sensitive investments like utilities, real-estate investment trusts and home-builder stocks, while the market has fallen back on a familiar life raft: tech stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

Their raft bumped against the shore and Gingersnipes collapsed with a dramatic flourish.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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

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 after midnight, a magnificent high tide arrives, the largest waves smashing against the bases of the ramparts, the sea green and aerated and networked with seething rafts of moonlit foam.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

Ann Willis, California regional director for the environmentalist group American Rivers, said that when she’s rafted on the Klamath previously, the water downstream of the dams has been warm, green and smelly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

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

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

"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