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They could more readily imagine the bean becoming cattle feed or an industrial raw material – which is exactly how its use evolved, at first.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
That’s especially the case when prices of raw materials are elevated due to supply shocks and physical scarcity, which could squeeze corporate margins and hurt equity valuations.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 13, 2026
There might be growing pains, but the raw talent is on display.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
One of those is Powall, a start-up in the Dutch city of Delft that is developing commercial-scale equipment for nanocoating the powders that are the raw materials of today's batteries.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
The image of raw billowy water vines fills my head.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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
Whether the shorter, rawer Prem hits that sweet spot will be seen next season.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025
As these rawer images came out, what struck you?
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2023
There’s a glossy sheen and an intensity of color to their images, a level of aestheticization that initially seems inconsistent with Ben Hania’s pursuit of a rawer, messier truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
"Hatred is the rawest, smelliest, most awful thing that anyone stood in the middle of," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
But you cannot simply ask the subject of your cover story what has made her the current cinema’s rawest nerve.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 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
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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