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
Cocktails begin at 6 p.m., as well as a silent auction and raffles.
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Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
Registration is $100 and each racer receives a race hat, two beer tickets, access to an exclusive racer-only raffle to be drawn midday on race day, and a full-day lift ticket to Attitash Mountain Resort.
—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 2 Mar. 2025
Someone in the comments suggested a raffle, so Felkamp put the plan into action.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
There will be raffle prizes, a silent auction and gear available to purchase.
—Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
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Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2025
Registration is $100 and each racer receives a race hat, two beer tickets, access to an exclusive racer-only raffle to be drawn midday on race day, and a full-day lift ticket to Attitash Mountain Resort.
—Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 2 Mar. 2025
Someone in the comments suggested a raffle, so Felkamp put the plan into action.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
There will be raffle prizes, a silent auction and gear available to purchase.
—Regina Elling, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raffle
Noun
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Lira, remembering the garbage, quickly takes out the trash.—
Cindy Carcamo,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2025
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Leave the garbage can open and place it in the sun to fully dry before closing it or putting a garbage bag in it.—
Kamron Sanders,
Better Homes & Gardens,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The building, a five-story apartment complex located in the southern Italian city of Bari, collapsed on Wednesday, March 5 — trapping a woman, 74, beneath the debris, Wanted in Rome — an English magazine for expats in Italy — reports, citing Italian outlet ANSA.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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Musk brushed off the rocket mishaps, replying to a photo of himself looking at debris from one of SpaceX’s multiple early rocket failures.—
Hadas Gold,
CNN,
11 Mar. 2025
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Smith fled in his father’s truck, was pursued by police and crashed at a Houston park and ran away on foot, escaping for a time, KPRC reported.—
Mitchell Willetts,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Mar. 2025
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Another snap shows the couple in the driver's seat of the truck, with Wyatt looking at his wife and holding her stomach.—
Kayla Grant,
People.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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The El Gigante rock shelter itself is more than 120 feet wide and 55 feet deep, and contains trash piles left by its former residents that span the last 11,000 years.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes,
13 Mar. 2025
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In the footage, the individual pulls up to the secluded dumpster in their car and quickly dumps the cat on top of the overflowing trash receptacle.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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When the children got older [my eldest is now 38], trying to find convenient snacks that weren't full of all kinds of junk was challenging.—
Carly Mallenbaum,
Axios,
14 Mar. 2025
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For a piece in this week’s issue, Helfand speaks with all parties involved, and even visits Elvis in his current resting place, amid dusty knickknacks and towering piles of junk in an office behind a mechanic’s garage.—
Hannah Jocelyn,
The New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This dumping exacts a devastating environmental toll—leaching toxic contaminants into water, air, and food, and miring whole regions in growing fields of rubbish.—
Scott W. Stern,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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This includes brush and rubbish, concrete, brick, rock, wood, paper, plastics, cardboard and roofing shingles and tiles.—
Elizabeth Campbell,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 Feb. 2025
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As some know, director/screenwriter Elijah Bynum’s harrowing feature has been collecting dust on the shelf for two years due mostly to Majors’ problems, including his conviction of misdemeanor assaults against Grace Jabbari.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
20 Mar. 2025
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In asthma, the immune system overreacts to harmless environmental elements like pollen, mold, or dust, causing airway inflammation.—
Carisa Brewster,
Verywell Health,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Raffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raffle. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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