RAFTED Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

rafted

verb

past tense of raft

as in suspended

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Last fiscal year’s results were even lower than 2020, when business was suspended for about a third of the year by the COVID-19 pandemic.

— Savannah Sicurella, AJC.com, 31 July 2026
In the tumult, Italy temporarily suspended its open-border Schengen agreement with Spain, re-imposing border controls for air and sea.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026

Definition of suspended

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Faced with more predators, prey and competition, their nervous systems rapidly ballooned to meet the new demands.

— Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 July 2026
The policy’s cost to the state has ballooned into the billions as the industry grows and evolves, prompting some state officials to call for an end to the tax break.

— Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 July 2026

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However, Newcastle have been looking at alternatives, and Parma’s Zion Suzuki, the 23-year-old Japan international, has featured during internal discussions, while Brighton’s 25-year-old goalkeeper Carl Rushworth has also been floated.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 July 2026
The team floated the idea to Nestlé’s global KitKat brand group, then gave its agency partner, VML, 24 hours to return with a concept.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 20 July 2026

Definition of floated

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The ship is regularly sailed and rowed, and on select outings visitors can even take an oar themselves—making Tønsberg one of the few places where World Cup fans can find out just how much harder the real thing is than the stadium version.

— Bailey Berg, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
On this day in 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 July 2026

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Both administrations dangled a nuclear cooperation agreement as a key incentive to Saudi Arabia in return for normalizing ties with Israel.

— Taylor Luck, Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2026
Several members equipped with climbing harnesses clambered up a small tree on the school’s front lawn and dangled from its limbs on climbing ropes.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026

Definition of dangled

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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
Six young women — hair fashionably bobbed, shins covered by knee-high socks — posed in dark, modest swimming suits in the tiled abyss of an empty swimming pool.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2026

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