rase
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The US Federal Reserve could rase interest rates as early as June, according to minutes from its April meeting show, with Fed’s members arguing the risks of a slowdown in global economy have receded.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2016
Take 4 weeks to rase and consume 3Kg of feed.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2015
Tyrian's axe Went spinning, followed by Tyrion himself, and the deck rase up to give him a wet smack.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
This rase did not attract much affection, on account ov the time being so slow.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
Sae I rase, afore my ordinar' time, and gaed back to my wark.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
There remained no hope, no supply of men, or weapons; the Mastes all beaten over boord, her upper worke rased.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the rigorousness of the tempest and the force of the yce so rased the sides of the ships that it was pitifull to behold, and caused the hearts of many to faint.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus was the city of Napoli rased to the ground as you have heard.
From Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffroi de Villehardouin
The convent in which the bells, the chef-d'œuvre of his skill, were hung, was rased to the earth, and these last carried away to another land.
From Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 by Various
And Stilpo, the Megarian, seems to me to have made a memorable answer when Demetrius enslaved Megara and rased it to the ground.
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
This is PhishMe’s third time rasing funds since its founding in 2011 and it already pulls in $35 million in revenue annually.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 1, 2016
Air France crews refused to board flights destined for Ebola-affected countries this week, rasing concerns that it could scrap routes.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2014
Their generous support and resources made the difference, and paved the way for future progress in our fund rasing efforts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Knights, damosells, paynims, quests, jousts, and tourneys, went "rasing and trasing" through his manuscript, until some people thought he was possessed with an archaic humor from which he would never recover.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 by Slason Thompson
And lightly they avoided their horses and rushed together, tracing, rasing, and foining.
From The Blue Flower by Henry Van Dyke
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