RAFTING Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

rafting

verb

Definition of rafting

present participle of raft

as in ballooning

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The numbers have grown as well, ballooning to around 5,000 during the height of the semiquincentennial celebration.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
Island is also navigating an increasingly crowded competitive landscape that includes pure-play incumbents such as Palo Alto Networks and a roster of startups racing to win a slice of the ballooning AI security market.

— Samantha Subin, CNBC, 24 Sep. 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

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From shredding the slopes in the winter to floating on the water in the summer, the unofficial capital of the Sierra Nevada sees outdoorsy travelers constantly flocking to its campsites and cabins.

— Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 15 Oct. 2026
To mollify the weathering forces that can twist or pull their systems apart, engineers at Ciel & Terre, a French floating solar array manufacturer, reshaped its design.

— Sal Vaglica, Time, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of floating

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The unfortunate crew of the doomed vessel were likely sailing to the west when disaster struck, the researchers wrote in a study about the wreck that was published earlier this year.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
The fourth ship was identified as the Al Saadiyat, sailing under the Marshall Islands flag.

— Mark Osborne, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

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