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
Livingstone will write the raffle winner a letter and sign it.
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2025
Also, there will be free samples, raffle giveaways, and more.
—Pamela Brown, Hartford Courant, 22 May 2025
Trustworthy or Not Trustworthy In this particular experiment, the participants were given 10 raffle tickets that could be used in a drawing for two $100 gift cards.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2025
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.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 21 May 2025
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2025
Also, there will be free samples, raffle giveaways, and more.
—Pamela Brown, Hartford Courant, 22 May 2025
Trustworthy or Not Trustworthy In this particular experiment, the participants were given 10 raffle tickets that could be used in a drawing for two $100 gift cards.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 22 May 2025
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.
—Ashley Vega, People.com, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raffle
Noun
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With the welcome citywide expansion of organic collection (brown bins) joining with paper (green bins) and metal, glass and plastic (blue bins), the remaining black bag garbage will be made of nonrecyclable items like those same thin plastics that Sims rejects that are used for wrapping or bags.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2025
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Patients may pass tissue and dispose of it in the garbage or toilet.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
6 June 2025
Noun
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The planet-wide dust storms are so fierce that the debris often does not settle for months at a time.—
Alex Morris,
Rolling Stone,
15 June 2025
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In Lyme and Old Saybrook, there is little flooding but reports of tremendous amounts of debris flowing into Long Island Sound.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2025
Noun
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His pickup truck was discovered, unoccupied, on Monday near a campground west of Leavenworth, Washington.—
Jade Walker,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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Israel allowed a handful of aid trucks into Gaza in mid-May, a move welcomed by aid agencies that urged Israel to allow far more supplies into the strip.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
Noun
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My trash fee could exceed $2,000 per year — for service that used to cost nothing.—
Steven Cordova,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
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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Vacuum, dust, or wipe surfaces and floors so the area is fresh for the next step: reorganizing.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 June 2025
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On Monday during a heated (fictional) confrontation with Bella, former WWE Women’s Champion Liv Morgan referenced the returning superstar’s divorce before their interaction quickly moved on to a physical dust up in the ring.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
12 June 2025
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“Raffle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raffle. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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