unrefined
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The 43-year-old’s sketches are famously loose, bright and unrefined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
But cargoes of oil products like gasoline and diesel came to 1.3 million barrels a day, accounting for only 11% of the overall flows—the rest was unrefined crude oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Under a shed in north India, women scoop cow dung, lumps of unrefined sugar and flour to produce biofertiliser -- part of a growing effort to tackle anxieties over the supply of chemical fertilisers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
“They are little fiber bombs and great prebiotics, as well as a source of unrefined sugar.”
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026
Swart was a young man, and I explained to him that brown rice was the unrefined rice kernel, and we used to eat it during the war when white rice was unavailable.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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