raking
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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After a few years of glossy magazine profiles and raking in the big bucks, he was searching for meaning and unhappy with the “tragic artist” he met in the mirror.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
After a multiyear drought in tech IPOs, Wall Street’s equity capital-markets desks are raking in fees again thanks to the artificial-intelligence boom.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Beam and Wheat are now raking longleaf pine straw and selling it to garden centers until the market improves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The father explained that after learning about the Aintree incident, "to then learn that ambulance staff have done the same and we have only found out by raking through these documents is appalling".
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Mr. Clutter now fed Babe the core of his apple, calling good morning to a man raking debris inside the corral—Alfred Stoecklein, the sole resident employee.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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