- present participle of raise.
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He gave up six runs in 5⅓ innings, raising concerns again over his inconsistency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The startup, founded by Harvard dropouts, is also raising capital at a $10 billion valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia Capital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
A wary Tinseltown reluctantly lined up behind Netflix as the lesser of two evils, only to watch Paramount keep raising its bid until the streamer walked away in February.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
While respondents generally supported modest reforms, like temporarily freezing benefits or slowing cost-of-living adjustments, they opposed more substantial measures including broad benefit cuts, raising the retirement age or means-testing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
Instead of raising more money to buy credit default swaps on subprime mortgage bonds, he wound up making it more difficult to keep the ones he already owned.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Like barn raisings or pub quizzes, Pynchon may be best tackled among friends, with each contributor volunteering their insights and interpretations to inspire the rest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Notably, junior raisings point to a 2026 exploration boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
They learned a week before the first scheduled vote that they would be protected with nature-based solutions such as grasses and oyster reefs, house raisings, and basement fillings.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
The city has since passed an ordinance that clarifies the rules for flag raisings.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
Well, Pedro, you may easily believe that we had many raisings of our hopes, like yourself, and many, many disappointments, but these last arose from our looking chiefly in wrong directions.
From The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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