as in garbage
discarded or useless material
the front lawn was littered with the raffle that the roofers had left behind
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Recent Examples of raffle
Additionally, the shop will be offering a buy-one-get-one 50% off promotion all weekend, plus assorted raffles and giveaways, according to an announcement on Facebook.
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Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
The collaboration will be available from Asics’ Harajuku and Osaka stores, which will hold walk-in raffles on Saturday, as well as Doublet and Atmos locations.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 6 Jan. 2026
Events will include food, live music, an ice fishing contest, poker run, raffles, bonfire, kids activities, winter yard games and more.
—Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 5 Jan. 2026
The second raffle number was listed to have won $100,000.
—Paula Wethington, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2025
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Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2026
The collaboration will be available from Asics’ Harajuku and Osaka stores, which will hold walk-in raffles on Saturday, as well as Doublet and Atmos locations.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 6 Jan. 2026
Events will include food, live music, an ice fishing contest, poker run, raffles, bonfire, kids activities, winter yard games and more.
—Tanya Wildt, Freep.com, 5 Jan. 2026
The second raffle number was listed to have won $100,000.
—Paula Wethington, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raffle
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Installed on the former garbage dump bounded by Sunset, Lewis, Western and Glen Flora avenues, there are now 20,000 solar panels.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2026
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Rescuers retrieved eight people alive and were searching for the missing still trapped after a huge mound of garbage and debris collapsed on them in the village of Binaliw in Cebu city, police said.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Fernando is looking to eventually publish a catalog of seismically tracked, entering space objects, while improving future calculations by factoring in the wind’s effect on falling debris.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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During all that time, miniscule rocks and debris should continue to to collide and merge into the building blocks of future gas and terrestrial planets.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
22 Jan. 2026
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Since then, TxDOT has continually sent fleets of trucks to plow main thoroughfares like Central Expressway in Richardson on Monday night and Highway 287 in Decatur earlier in the day.—
J.D. Miles,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Other EVs that made the KBB list include the 2026 Ford F-150 Lightning for best electric truck (which is now discontinued until an extended range EV version arrives) and 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 5 for best EV.—
Sasha Lekach,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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Tourists are urged to lock up their food and trash, and anglers instructed to bury any bait that may attract scavengers.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
24 Jan. 2026
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Transcripts from nearly a century ago show a city meeting where concerns were voiced about sharp pieces of wood on the south ramp of the pier causing injury to beachgoers who were seeking first aid, sweeping currents pushing people into the pier and trash left behind by the influx of visitors.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
24 Jan. 2026
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Most of that toxic junk was never found, Fernando added.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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There’s so much junk in Eggleston’s pictures.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
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Piles of human scraps offer a bottomless buffet to wildlife, and to access that bounty, animals need to be bold enough to rummage through human rubbish but not so bold as to become a threat to people.—
Marina Wang,
Scientific American,
14 Nov. 2025
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Helga once wrestled down a drunk fisherman in the Café, a man of above-average size, and then threw him out like a piece of rubbish; Jens thus transfers most of his weight automatically to her; who is this kid, by the way?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Researchers revealed that the high-voltage output facilitates the neutralization and collection of dust and moisture by generating negative ions.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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Adding a dust ruffle around the base of your bed can make this spot even better for keeping messy items hidden.—
Lauren Landers,
The Spruce,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Raffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raffle. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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