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[raw] / rɔ /






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"Previously, transporting heavy cargo such as industrial machinery, raw materials, construction materials and energy-related supplies required extreme caution because of safety concerns surrounding the ageing bridge," Lim told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

These structures, called protoplanetary disks, provide the raw materials from which planets develop.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

The conflicts are raw and unresolved, and Churchill forces theatergoers to make up their own minds about the characters’ furious dialect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Archaeological evidence, from sites such as Star Carr in Yorkshire, England, shows that early hunter-gatherers, following the retreating ice, were drawn to these wetlands as a source of food, raw materials and protection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

I’d sneak him raw chicken outta our refrigerator.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

But I find it hard to conceive that the image her leadership so desperately courts—a renegade broadcast company, steelier, rawer, and ineffably realer than its competitors—will ever take hold.

From Slate ● Jan. 6, 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

It’s rawer than I’d grown accustomed to thinking about your music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024

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

The legacy of the shocking death of Diana, Princess of Wales, is still the rawest of wounds for the royals, as demonstrated by the no-holds-barred memoir from her brother Earl Spencer.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

It also inspires the rawest and most emotional passages in the book.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

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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