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
Leaves also created the raw material for trees’ bark and wood, and even the suction to lift water far from the roots via a network of internal plumbing called xylem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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
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
Across the street from the school stretched acres of cotton fields, the raw material for Monroe’s mill and the source of income for many county residents.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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