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raffle

[raf-uhl] / ˈræf əl /


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For those who hit all bookstores — with stamps to show for it — the grand prize awaits: a raffle entry for a $325 gift card.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Yamal’s family had entered a charity raffle organized by the Spanish newspaper Diario Sport and the United Nations Children’s Fund, known as UNICEF, and they won a spot in a promotional photo shoot with Messi.

From MarketWatch Jul. 17, 2026

They came together after Yamal’s mother, Sheila, won a raffle run by a local newspaper and Barcelona’s shirt sponsor, the children’s charity UNICEF.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

Buffett has lavished praise on the executive for his preternatural ability to craft offbeat policies, including insuring Chicago’s tallest building against terrorist attacks and Pepsi against having to award a $1 billion raffle prize.

From The Wall Street Journal May 5, 2026

“We could have some craft tables for kids. And a raffle for a special wishing penny for the well. It’d be more gesture than anything else,” I said.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

It raffles off free Cane’s for a year to a “Lucky 20” customers who show up within the first few hours of an opening, offering Caniacs another reason to camp outside in the parking lot.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

These might include old-school offerings like block parties, back-to-school events, give-aways and raffles.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

They have held auctions, organized raffles and invited influencers to participate in promotional clips.

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2024

As California historian Kevin Starr wrote, Culver used gimmicks and giveaways and stunts like kids’ boxcar races, raffles, parades, and, memorably, a polo game played from the running boards of Model Ts.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2023

She saw to it that she had a good pair of shoes for street wear, that she always had clothing, even during the times when the raffles were working only through some miracle.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When they got back from their trip to America in March, they noticed that others had successfully raffled their homes on the British website Raffall.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

He campaigned on X to get the pay plan approved, and the company raffled off a chance for a tour of a Tesla production plant with the CEO.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

Between Thursday, June 19, and Sunday, June 22, participating chefs and restaurants throughout Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego are presenting unique pies to be sold or raffled whole or by the slice.

From Salon Jun. 19, 2025

Mitchell previously raised thousands of pounds for charity when he raffled tickets to see the 2022 Europa league final in Seville, where Rangers lost to Eintracht Frankfurt.

From BBC May 28, 2024

The swag Wilfrido raffled off was pretty cool.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

Jennie Bailey's friends thought she was "bonkers" when she told them she was raffling her family's £325,000 home for £5 a ticket.

From BBC Dec. 13, 2025

They were raffling one off, and I won it.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2023

They thought it was funny and weird that the event was raffling off a chocolate cake, she said.

From Washington Post Jan. 21, 2023

He's already selling greeting cards, T-shirts, hats, wine glasses, footballs, placemats and Christmas ornaments, along with raffling off tickets to see him perform.

From Salon Nov. 10, 2022

The piano had been rolled out from the social hall, and Miss Lulu was playing what she must have thought was an appropriate cake raffling song.

From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo




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