material

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Still, “input prices continued to rise at a rate faster than the long-run survey average, linked to higher raw material and energy costs and supply chain disruptions,” Yao said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

It said that there had been no "disappearance" of the bull's testicles and the pink marble used for the restoration was considered the closest material to the work's original appearance.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

As a result, the crystal behaves like a metal along one axis and like a dielectric material along the perpendicular axis, creating its exceptionally strong anisotropy.

From Science Daily • Jun. 1, 2026

Rowbottom’s willingness to move toward culturally uncomfortable material is central to her work, he stressed, treating so-called lowbrow or feminine cultural obsessions not as guilty pleasures, but as material worthy of literary merit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

Schulwerk uses the native language, sounds, timbres, rhythms, melodies, and tonal material surrounding the child, particularly in its folk music repertoire.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin