rafting

verb

Definition of raftingnext
present participle of raft
as in ballooning

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  1. ballooning
  2. swimming
  3. floating
  4. sailing
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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
Definition of ballooning
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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
Definition of swimming
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  • Vincent Fiordilino was found floating face-down in an in-ground pool during a Super Bowl gathering at the family's home in Gilbert, Arizona, according to police.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Those little pieces floating around in there that can’t get out.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 22 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
Definition of sailing
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