raking
Example Sentences
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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
They provide one-stop services to banks, hedge funds and other large financial clients, raking in as much as $10 billion a year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
They settled under a tree and piled the blankets and coats on the ground and he wrapped the boy in one of the blankets and set to raking up the dead needles in a pile.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
