raw materials

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Additionally, a shortage of raw materials critical to semiconductor production, particularly helium, might affect factories, which could result in losses exceeding $10 billion per month, it adds.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

It also means the AI buildout is competing for physical resources — land, energy, construction labor, raw materials — that are finite and already under pressure.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

Then there are their complementary economies: Russia as a major exporter of oil, gas and other raw materials, and China's industrial economy providing a vast market for them.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Manufacturers and food processors, many dependent on imported raw materials priced in dollars, are seeing costs surge.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

The extensive cedar, cypress, and oak groves now belonging to her would provide the raw materials that Mark Antony required.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby