raw deal
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From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
A youth charity boss suggests: "It's like a guilty secret, the country knows that young people are getting a raw deal but nobody is doing anything about it."
From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025
By anyone’s standards, Lohan took the raw deal she was given as a child star whose popularity exploded in the brutal celebrity culture of the early aughts and transformed it into an impressive second act.
From Salon • Dec. 3, 2024
Logie, who left Division II Point Loma to become Montana State’s head man last season, inherited a raw deal with the Bobcats.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 25, 2024
Well," said Jimmy, "she had a pretty raw deal on Birch Street.
From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson