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Recent Examples of rake up
Legal sportsbooks FanDuel, BetMGM, Caesars and DraftKings are numbered among the NBA’s 50-plus official marketing partners, and per iSpot data, in-game gambling ads raked up a staggering 1.93 billion household impressions last season.
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2025
The president has been raking up global support in his push for a Nobel Peace Prize, but ending the war in Gaza and the war in Ukraine are major diplomatic tests for him.
—Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 30 Sep. 2025
Tired of spending your weekends raking up endless piles of leaves until your arms ache?
—Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Five days after the storm, Mullins was still raking up some of the debris in his backyard.
—Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 May 2025
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Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2025
The president has been raking up global support in his push for a Nobel Peace Prize, but ending the war in Gaza and the war in Ukraine are major diplomatic tests for him.
—Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 30 Sep. 2025
Tired of spending your weekends raking up endless piles of leaves until your arms ache?
—Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Five days after the storm, Mullins was still raking up some of the debris in his backyard.
—Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rake up
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Everyone is trying to smoke out moles, or plant some of their own.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Jan. 2026
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Imposing the personality cult upon the state is designed not only to burnish the leader’s image, but to create opportunities to smoke out dissidents.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
30 Dec. 2025
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Foster, the prosecutor, acknowledged as much after last year’s sentencing.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Feb. 2026
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Tateishi found his path to activism in the 1970s, as anger swelled among young former detainees about their imprisonment, which the government had yet to acknowledge as an injustice.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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The two, along with WhatsApp, the messaging service owned by Meta, are the most widely used by Gabonese citizens.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Feb. 2026
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In 2019, investigators traced the Kincade fire in Sonoma County, which destroyed 374 homes and other structures, to a transmission line owned by Pacific Gas & Electric that was no longer in service.—
Melody Petersen,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of ancient Roman marching camps in Saxony-Anhalt — a first for one of Eastern Germany's larger states.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Just as much an investigator as a memoirist, Nevils attempts to tunnel through the lurid details and the #MeToo boilerplate and unearth something much knottier.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
13 Feb. 2026
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His hybrid was designed to preserve the elegance and smooth operation of electric motors while conceding the practical power and range that fuel offered.—
Bill Gourgey,
Popular Science,
5 Feb. 2026
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Going into Wednesday’s games, the Lakers rank 27th in opposing field goal percentage and 24th in defensive rating, an estimate of the amount of points a team concedes across a 100-possession span.—
Benjamin Royer,
Oc Register,
5 Feb. 2026
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That includes an encounter with Keegan (Brett Goldstein, wasted), a friendly Brit flying kites on the beach — kites do a lot of symbolic heavy lifting in flashbacks — to whom Laura confesses that boozing was her only way of letting go.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Feb. 2026
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Wade Wilson confessed to the savage murders of two women, yet even that brutality failed to repel admirers.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
15 Feb. 2026
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Then there’s also the secret sauce that gives it its pore-blurring and glass-skin imparting finish.—
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
15 Feb. 2026
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Mancuso’s picks, which include Tuscan Pesto Baked Salmon and Peanut Butter Bites, were formulated specifically to support endurance and to impart long-lasting energy.—
Helen Carefoot,
Flow Space,
12 Feb. 2026
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Silver also admitted the overwhelming size of this task, given that roughly 80 countries allow betting on the NBA while billions more are wagered illegally.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
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Heraskevych admitted he was surprised by the strong reaction.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Rake up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rake%20up. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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