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[raft, rahft] / ræft, rɑft /




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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

Much of the plan is oriented around cementing the territory’s economic ties with mainland China, through a raft of commercial and educational programs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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

Paddles for the life raft so the Clippers can change directions and make better decisions — hopefully with better decision-makers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

She’s a bit heavier than Jack, so if your hero is about that big he could float on a raft with twenty coconuts.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

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

The ship was equipped with 250 life jackets, two lifeboats and six inflatable rafts, Edghill said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 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

The Indian Navy deployed a long-range maritime patrol aircraft to support the search and kept another aircraft with air-droppable life rafts on standby.

From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026

Well after midnight, a magnificent high tide arrives, the largest waves smashing against the bases of the ramparts, the sea green and aerated and networked with seething rafts of moonlit foam.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

However, our drilling efforts recovered the first cores of this material after it has spent tens of millions of years being rafted across the seafloor as Earth's tectonic plates spread apart.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2025

Chris Brown, co-owner of the rafting business Whitewater Voyages, looked out over a boulder-strewn part of the stream where he had rafted a month earlier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2025

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

I still couldn’t catch the old tiger, so I rafted to shore and got Mr. Jacket.

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

Longer races, the ones Crane is involved in, can last several days and include running, mountain biking, climbing, white-water rafting and rappelling over courses that extend for hundreds of miles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025

A British woman has died on a white-water rafting excursion in the French Alps.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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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