raw materials

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We are running short of the raw materials for our exquisite weapons while our adversaries flood the battlefield with cheap drones.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

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

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

What one strategist argues, therefore, is that investors should plow capital into the energy stocks providing the raw materials that technology stocks desperately require to grow.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

Calbee said in a statement that the design change is a response to "supply instability affecting raw materials amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East."

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Notwithstanding the popular image of ‘man the hunter’, gathering was Sapiens’ main activity, and it provided most of their calories, as well as raw materials such as flint, wood and bamboo.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari