raffle
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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
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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
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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
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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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