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rake

[rayk] / reɪk /


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Second, it isn’t necessarily true that a well-intentioned AI whose evil twin is smart enough to bring down civilization is so smart that it’s bound to rake in big profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

There could also be a feeling that it's "tawdry" to rake up these claims so many years later, he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Now, there are a handful of other AI companies capturing investor attention as they rake in hefty profits.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026

Investors are also getting impatient with Meta’s lofty AI ambitions and want the company to rake in bigger returns sooner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

When his father finished his workday, the fruit of his labor lay before him: a musket, a rake, a wagon spring.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Weil raked in $2.1 billion in revenue last year and, like most law firms, it has relatively few liabilities outside of its global office leases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The company is expected to report $28 billion in revenue on Wednesday, roughly equivalent to what the company raked in a year earlier, according to FactSet data.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

To stem the fall, the RBI has rolled out an array of moves to woo dollar inflows, including a deposit scheme for the Indian diaspora that raked in around $127 billion.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Galán declined to be interviewed for Carr’s documentary, having been thoroughly raked over the coals once the public’s visceral disgust with “The Swan” got it canceled after its second season.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

Frankie raked his hand through his hair, still smiling.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Micron and Nvidia are among high-profile semiconductor companies that have been raking in cash and still have inexpensive stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

After a multiyear drought in tech IPOs, Wall Street’s equity capital-markets desks are raking in fees again thanks to the artificial-intelligence boom.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Before firefighters had finished extinguishing the blaze, I found Liliya Velyka, a 28-year-old book blogger, raking through the smouldering ruins, seeing if anything could be saved.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Gatwood hoped to put in a new fence and was raking some rocks and dirt to make the yard smoother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Right next to our stairs, in Papa’s rock garden, the moss was dry, the sand needed raking.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston


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