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The anger towards Tuchel from supporters is still raw, of course.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Benedette Hardwick, the owner of the Red B Restaurant in Idabel, Okla., said the restaurant had temporarily stopped serving things like kale, parsley, green onion, raw broccoli, spinach and cilantro.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
Egypt imports around 40 percent of its raw plastic materials, mainly from Gulf countries, Europe, China and South Korea, according to the Chamber of Chemical Industries.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Europe is planning a 3-billion-euro financing hub and aiming to limit any single country from supplying over 65% of its strategic raw materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
‘Willem?’ she says, her voice a raw croak.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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
“In some way, we’re in the early Cold War – the Fifties and Sixties, so a much rawer time.”
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024
It’s rawer than I’d grown accustomed to thinking about your music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
As these rawer images came out, what struck you?
From Slate ● 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
For six tumultuous years, director Nico Ballesteros followed Ye at close range, capturing the artist’s rawest highs and lowest lows in the new documentary “In Whose Name?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
It is golf in its rawest form with a place in the game's most historic tournament at stake.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
Maybe it’s because I was being accepted for the rawest version of myself: loud, artistic, sometimes judgmental, but always warm and open to new people and experiences.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 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
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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