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[raft, rahft] / ræft, rɑft /




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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

“Go go go go go go! Lower the life raft, and get dressed quickly!” someone shouted in a combination of Chinese and English.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

And the pretense of sliding her hand past the raft and almost slipping underwater herself.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Citizen Zoo has also set up camera traps and "latrine rafts" - floating rafts where the water voles defecate - to help gather evidence of the population on the Hogsmill.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

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

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 Jan. 30, 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

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

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

He can make a Bach sarabande work anywhere, including on a river rafting trip with a background of gurgling water on his latest Bach recording.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 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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