rafted

verb

past tense of raft
as in suspended

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  1. suspended
  2. ballooned
  3. floated
  4. swam
  5. sailed
  6. dangled
  7. bobbed
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  • Argentina attacking midfielder Thiago Almada has been given a one-match ban for unsporting behaviour, while team official Roberto Ayala has been suspended for three matches for one count of assault, and the pair have also been fined $30,000 each.
    — Ali Rampling, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Video from the incident showed riders suspended vertically as people gathered below.
    — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of suspended
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  • The tab has been growing more swiftly in recent years; interest payments on the debt have ballooned as interest rates and borrowing have risen; and all this is happening in relatively good economic times.
    — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The ballroom construction was originally expected to cost $200 million, then the price ballooned to $400 million, and the total construction cost was later estimated at $600 million.
    — Paloma Chavez, PEOPLE, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of ballooned
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  • Jaissle is likely to have his own prospective midfield names, too, who were not actively being floated before he was appointed.
    — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The short dress featured a cape-style top that floated in the wind, framing the low-cut back.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of floated
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  • Spain has also installed floating barriers in the waters where migrants had previously swam across.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Another person apparently swam out from the shore and rescued him, according to a press release from CPW.
    — Logan Smith, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of swam
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  • Of the outbound traffic, four vessels — including a tanker laden with 2 million barrels of Saudi crude - sailed with their satellite trackers off.
    — Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Following the defeat of British forces, William Franklin sailed for London in 1782.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of sailed
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  • The Robert Mueller investigation found, among other things, that Putin had dangled a lucrative no-risk deal to Trump during the 2016 campaign.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Bits of grass stuck to her heels, and a clothespin dangled from the hem of her blouse.
    — Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of dangled
Verb
  • My Lady Clam bobbed in the water, which didn’t look so turbulent from where Kath sat.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026
  • One afternoon as a rookie, listening to coaches drone on in a dark room with film cutups flashing in front of them, his head bobbed.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Definition of bobbed
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