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[raw] / rɔ /






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In February, Zimbabwe froze exports of raw minerals ahead of a full ban in 2027, announcing it would require "in-country value addition and beneficiation".

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

Within a few short weeks, an ongoing outbreak of Cyclospora, a foodborne parasite that can contaminate raw fruits and vegetables — and lead to several unpleasant gastrointestinal symptoms — has fueled a nationwide panic.

From Salon Jul. 25, 2026

Last year, Evans told The Times that the interview format, with its squirm-inducing sauces, was a tactic to turn what might otherwise be a typical press tour interview into something raw and real.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

The perfect one is raw spinach and banana.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Both countries had to import raw materials to supply their war industries, and this was all done by ship.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

“You don’t get much rawer than there. That can be attractive - if you want to see real life.”

From BBC Jul. 20, 2024

As these rawer images came out, what struck you?

From Slate Nov. 3, 2023

There’s a glossy sheen and an intensity of color to their images, a level of aestheticization that initially seems inconsistent with Ben Hania’s pursuit of a rawer, messier truth.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2023

Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

It is golf in its rawest form with a place in the game's most historic tournament at stake.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2025

It’s genuinely therapeutic to just peel back all the layers and say the rawest, realest version of your truth.

From Seattle Times Jan. 3, 2024

Both, says Nagourney, “were calculating and ruthless when they needed to be and capable of the rawest candor — characteristics that would help lift them to the top of the newsroom.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 27, 2023

This is no comfort to the flight attendants and service industry staff taking the brunt of such aggression but, in its rawest form, that's what these pandemic lash-outs are.

From Salon Apr. 12, 2023

The files on the murders of the Osage contained history in its rawest form: bits of data vacuumed up without any chronology or narrative, like a novel whose pages were out of order.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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