RAFTED Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

rafted

verb

past tense of raft

as in suspended

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Zelenskyy had suspended Kravchenko from the post the day before.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2026
Some of them chose to give up their certification and others were suspended, while the rest either made changes to stay in compliance or are in the process of doing so, Roth said.

— Daniel Gilbert, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of suspended

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Bilateral trade between China and Russia ballooned to over $240 billion in 2024.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
The roles there often come with grueling 12-hour shifts, but when thousands of workers threatened strikes at Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix, bonuses ballooned upwards of $500,000.

— Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of ballooned

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By Monday, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark floated mandatory kill switches for AI systems.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
One potential reason floated to Semafor by market participants is that compute futures could be manipulated to show a sharp drop in the cost of older chips, which might destabilize AI stocks and debt markets.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of floated

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The cast swam in the ocean every day; Buckley and O’Connor hiked the volcano every morning.

— Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2026
Thinking the only safe way to get Sandra out would be by breaking a window, Joe swam through the kitchen and escaped out the back doorway.

— Ren Larson, ProPublica, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of swam

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The family sailed on the Lusitania in 1914, a year before a German torpedo sank the ship and killed nearly twelve hundred people.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
Wearing a headband and a hard look, Chen took a breath and sailed over a man and two motorcycles.

— Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of sailed

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As the balloon carrying the cauldron rose and bobbed a couple hundred feet overhead, many got busy taking photos and recording videos and selfies.

— Hannah Bloch, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026
During the Hudson Williams look-alike contest, Hoefer zoned out as a large cardboard cutout of the Heated Rivalry star’s face bobbed over the crowd.

— E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026

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