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[raft, rahft] / ræft, rɑft /




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But despite passing a raft of other legislation before parliament ended its session in July, Israel's government said it ran out of time to pass a bill setting out its plans for the inquiry.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Rising Treasury yields have put pressure on yield-sensitive investments like utilities, real-estate investment trusts and home-builder stocks, while the market has fallen back on a familiar life raft: tech stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

The luxury EV launches come as some of Europe’s most prestigious brands battle a raft of challenges around the world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

In recent months, states across NATO's eastern flank have faced a raft of hostile actions from Moscow and Minsk ranging from drone incursions to cyberattacks.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

She was focused on something rising up behind the raft.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

As he and two other crew members scrambled to grab onto debris and rafts, they realized that one of them was missing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 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

Brothers to the Rescue, a Cuban exile group that searched for rafts carrying migrants from Cuba to the US, had previously dropped anti-Castro leaflets near the Cuban coast.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

Photos shared by the Royal Thai Navy showed heavy black smoke billowing from the hull and superstructure of the Thai-registered Mayuree Naree, with life rafts floating in the water.

From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026

South of the Blackwater, Davos saw men dragging crude rafts toward the water while ranks and columns formed up beneath a thousand streaming banners.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

These vessels were anchored and at times rafted together waiting for mother ships to come and be refilled around the Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex on the Malaysian side of the Singapore Strait.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

In June, they rafted the South Fork of the American River, along with stops in Old Sacramento and, last of all, Columbia State Historic Park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The first mammal from South America discovered in the older beds was from a primate species, which is presumed to have rafted across the seaway.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024

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

“NOTES: “Today I rafted out into the deep pools of the creek to fish.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Dollywood’s latest project: a more than $50 million, first-of-its-type indoor ride that combines a 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

Instead of all-you-can-drink wristbands, they offer adrenaline-stoking activities like fly fishing, canyoneering, snorkeling and rafting in between multicourse meals and happy hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

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

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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