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[raw] / rɔ /






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For their study, the scientists at King's College London analysed 12 raw or uncooked fresh foods - beetroot, bell pepper, broccoli, butternut squash, cauliflower, celeriac, curly kale, fennel, kiwi fruit, leek, pineapple and watermelon.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

The announcement struck a raw nerve in a French public concerned about the disappearance of local jobs amid a flood of Asian imports, and triggered the departure of a number of brands.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

The raw materials and steel products segments also grew their earnings year over year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Earnings in the steel mills and steel products segments are expected to be stable, with an expected slight decrease in earnings from the raw materials segment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Never had she felt her monster so close, so raw and angry that it seemed remarkable that it hadn’t simply torn through her flesh and attacked on its own accord.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Two photographs, both taken during the Civil War in 1863, exposed the rawer side of the American experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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

Justin Torres: I read this a while ago when it was in rawer form, and now I have this beautiful hardback.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025

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

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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

"Hatred is the rawest, smelliest, most awful thing that anyone stood in the middle of," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

In “Anatomy of a Fall,” even the rawest of emotional truths turn out to be booby-trapped, and the ever-thin boundaries between life and art are repeatedly violated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

Fatoumata Diawara, from Mali, rides a galloping six-beat modal groove topped by the Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca in “Blues,” which is by far the rawest song on her new album of international fusions, “London Ko.”

From New York Times ● May 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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