as in garbage
discarded or useless material
the front lawn was littered with the raffle that the roofers had left behind
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Recent Examples of raffle
The school’s auditorium isn’t large enough for everyone, so the administration has capped the number of tickets and only offers extras through a raffle.
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Ashley Vega, People.com, 21 May 2025
Image One past raffle winner, Niamh Gleeson, got a converted stone barn in Kilkenny after buying 10 raffle tickets for five pounds each.
—Lana Bortolot, New York Times, 20 May 2025
Casselberry Coin Club: There will be a coin auction, refreshments, and a coin raffle, as well as a presentation about unusual numismatic collectibles.
—Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2025
Enjoy a delicious lunch, fabulous raffle and listen to New York TImes bestselling author Sarah Penner discuss her new book The Amalfi Curse.Visit www.libraryguildrsf.org or call 858-756-4780 to register.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025
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Ashley Vega, People.com, 21 May 2025
Image One past raffle winner, Niamh Gleeson, got a converted stone barn in Kilkenny after buying 10 raffle tickets for five pounds each.
—Lana Bortolot, New York Times, 20 May 2025
Casselberry Coin Club: There will be a coin auction, refreshments, and a coin raffle, as well as a presentation about unusual numismatic collectibles.
—Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2025
Enjoy a delicious lunch, fabulous raffle and listen to New York TImes bestselling author Sarah Penner discuss her new book The Amalfi Curse.Visit www.libraryguildrsf.org or call 858-756-4780 to register.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raffle
Noun
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Duluth, Minnesota, has installed effective and unobtrusive signs at each beach entrance next to a garbage receptacle.—
John Michael Pierobon,
Sun Sentinel,
25 May 2025
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Allegiance The Resistance, led by General Leia Organa, regroups on the garbage planet Anoat, while Finn and Poe go on a secret mission to retrieve a weapons cache to increase their dwindling arsenal.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
25 May 2025
Noun
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Fortunately, the lighter rainfall levels have decreased the risk of a debris flow taking place in the Eaton and Palisades fire burn scars, a possibility forecasters warned of Monday.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2025
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Remove brush and debris piles from around the home.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 June 2025
Noun
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FanDuel Sports Kansas City trucks potentially could have been impacted by the storm.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
5 June 2025
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The trucks were bound for Intel’s $20 billion semiconductor plant in New Albany, a suburb of Columbus.—
Angela Jackson,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Both of their remains are presumed to have been transported to Hawaii’s trash incinerator.—
Lesley Cosme Torres,
People.com,
6 June 2025
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Your town may have a trash pickup walk, a Thanksgiving turkey trot or a stroll to historic sites.—
Elizabeth Passarella,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
Noun
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And there are the old pitfalls of the technology that anyone above a certain age remembers: blurry pages, junk faxes that pile up and faxes getting sent to the wrong number.—
Tamsin Gable,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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In 2018, inspired by this culture of bricolage, curator Danni Friedman and designer Jean Lee gathered a group of designers in Havana for a ten-day workshop, turning them loose in an old shipyard factory filled with clay, concrete mix, scrap metal, and assorted junk.—
Glenn Adamson,
Artforum,
1 June 2025
Noun
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And oftentimes, these cheap items end up as rubbish.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN Money,
16 Apr. 2025
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This never got past the drawing board stage, but the idea kept cropping up again and again with many variations on a circular shape and performance that spanned from interesting to rubbish.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
29 Mar. 2025
Noun
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And those planets had access to plenty of fresh water—water that had several routes to reach them, from comet and asteroid impacts to icy dust being imprisoned within the planets as they were being built.—
Robin George Andrews,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 May 2025
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Thunderstorms could affect Arizona late Sunday and into Monday, and some gusty winds could contribute to blowing dust.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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“Raffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raffle. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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