RAFTING Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

rafting

verb

Definition of rafting

present participle of raft

as in ballooning

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Frustrated with ballooning legal costs and her handling of a department data breach, the city’s powerful police union abandoned Feldstein Soto and backed McKinney.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
The United States today has comparably stretched global military commitments amid ballooning social costs at home.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

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It’s estimated about 25% of the sunscreen people apply to their skin washes off while swimming or wading in the ocean.

— Matthew Perrone, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
For twenty years, McCarthy has been swimming against the current, writing novels that reflect, with unusual intensity, his disdain for the conventional underpinnings of literary fiction.

— Max Callimanopulos, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026

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Russia’s offer to supply floating nuclear power plants to coastal African countries emerged as a major focus of talks held with African officials at a summit in Moscow this week.

— Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026
But there are actual terrifying objects in space, entities operating on a scale that crush our minds and reduce our human experience to a mote of dust floating in the dark.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of floating

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Charging infrastructure at ports would supply the electricity needed for operation, allowing the concept to avoid direct carbon emissions while sailing.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2026
Chuck Zimmerman, who is described by his supporters as a Navy veteran who was intercepted by the Russian navy while sailing in international waters.

— Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026

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