life raft
noun
: a raft usually made of wood or an inflatable material and designed for use by people forced into the water
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Life Raft: Lisa While the captain’s under on the night of his medically urgent heartbreak, the ship’s radar picks up a floating figure at sea that could be a life raft.
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Its 75 crew and passengers were ordered to abandon the vessel on life rafts and were later rescued.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2024
Drowning in sadness and uncertainty, teaching myself how to self-tie with rope as a form of meditation became the life raft that saved me.
—Bae Leche, refinery29.com, 3 Oct. 2024
Elsewhere, on Atlanta resident was caught on video using a sleeping air mattress as a life raft as rescue workers patrolled the chest-high floodwaters saving people.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2024
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Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
Its 75 crew and passengers were ordered to abandon the vessel on life rafts and were later rescued.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2024
Drowning in sadness and uncertainty, teaching myself how to self-tie with rope as a form of meditation became the life raft that saved me.
—Bae Leche, refinery29.com, 3 Oct. 2024
Elsewhere, on Atlanta resident was caught on video using a sleeping air mattress as a life raft as rescue workers patrolled the chest-high floodwaters saving people.
—Tom Tapp, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2024
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“Life raft.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life%20raft. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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