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rafts

  • present tense form of raft (3rd person singular).

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“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

No, the truly strange thing — still remarkable to experience among thousands — is the way their fame is grounded in epic rafts of sci-fi nerdiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 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

There are about a dozen photos under a banner titled “Duct Tape Boat Regatta 2011–2018,” and each shows a variety of life-size rafts made of cardboard and duct tape.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam