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Hasibul Alam Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

I can not xo relate the meaning of raft on each sentence

  • Although he mentioned conferring with a raft of internal advisors — only one of whom, he acknowledged, was black — it was clear that the decision was his alone.Los Angeles TimesJun 5, 2020
  • In two committee rooms Thursday, tensions boiled as lawmakers considered a raft of subpoenas for current and former Justice Department officials.Seattle TimesJun 4, 2020
  • Authorities, meanwhile, are recommending a raft of new procedures, some of them costly, designed to stem the spread of germs.Washington PostMay 27, 2020
  • But any regulation that implicates speech — especially political content online — threatens to raise a raft of thorny constitutional issues.
  

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This is what dictionaries are best at. You should get one and read it on the train. I had to look, and I rarely have to.

  • This is what dictionaries are best at.
  • You should get one and read it on the train.
  • I had to look, and I rarely have to.
  • This "raft" and the more common water vehicle are two entirely different words despite the fact that they are spelled and pronounced exactly the same.
  • The water raft is related to the Old Norse word that gave us "rafter".
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This is what dictionaries are best at. You should get one and read it on the train. I had to look, and I rarely have to. This "raft" and the more common water vehicle are two entirely different words despite the fact that they are spelled and pronounced exactly the same.

The water raft is related to the Old Norse word that gave us "rafter". Your "raft" is an early nineteenth-century Amer

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