raw material
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The raw material for this enterprise is a 2012 tweet by El-Sayed’s half-sister describing a conversation with their mother about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the early 1970s.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Besides a growing reliance on inputs and raw material, Chinese imports to India are also being propelled by other macroeconomic trends.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Normally soybean oil—the raw material for biodiesel—costs more than the finished fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
The man realized that the animals on Salatin’s farm were not being treated like unfeeling raw material, but like living creatures.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
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