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
Excluding crude energy products, raw material prices were up 1.1% from July and 17.2% compared with a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
He had seen plastic bowls and cups in museums, but the raw material lay all around them here.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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