raw material
Example Sentences
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The price of silver, Pandora's main raw material, hit record highs in January before falling back down, but remains higher than it was a year ago.
From BBC
“We take raw materials and transform them ourselves, from cutting and welding to painting and final assembly,” Niederpruem says.
From Barron's
The EU wants to cut its reliance on China for critical raw materials -- needed for clean technologies like wind turbines and electric car batteries -- and Australia's rich deposits would help Brussels diversify imports.
From Barron's
Such companies have argued that, if anything, AI would increase the value of their services, making it easier to extract business insights and trading opportunities from the raw material of their data.
John Jovanovic, the chairman of the Export-Import Bank, said the stockpile would support domestic processing of critical raw materials as well as protect U.S. manufacturers from supply shocks.
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