raw material
Example Sentences
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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
In theory, that diversity should provide enough raw material for continued adaptation.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Condimentum, based at the Food Enterprise Park in Easton, near Norwich, had been keeping Colman's Norwich legacy alive by producing the raw material for the brand.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
It was a bad habit, Mitchell Sanders said, because all that matters is the raw material, the stuff itself, and you can’t clutter it up with your own half-baked commentary.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
