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Earnings in the steel mills and steel products segments are expected to be stable, with an expected slight decrease in earnings from the raw materials segment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
These are pre-production plastic pellets, about the size of a lentil, which are used as the raw material to manufacture nearly all everyday plastic goods.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
All of this requires considerable energy and raw materials.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
That is the through-line: a city, a state and a country that objectify Native homelands, treating them as expendable and raw material.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Stores of cooked and raw food lay in the makeshift baskets Nhamo had been able to produce.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Two photographs, both taken during the Civil War in 1863, exposed the rawer side of the American experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
“In some way, we’re in the early Cold War – the Fifties and Sixties, so a much rawer time.”
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024
It’s rawer than I’d grown accustomed to thinking about your music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
As these rawer images came out, what struck you?
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2023
Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
For six tumultuous years, director Nico Ballesteros followed Ye at close range, capturing the artist’s rawest highs and lowest lows in the new documentary “In Whose Name?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025
It is golf in its rawest form with a place in the game's most historic tournament at stake.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
Maybe it’s because I was being accepted for the rawest version of myself: loud, artistic, sometimes judgmental, but always warm and open to new people and experiences.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2025
It’s genuinely therapeutic to just peel back all the layers and say the rawest, realest version of your truth.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
The files on the murders of the Osage contained history in its rawest form: bits of data vacuumed up without any chronology or narrative, like a novel whose pages were out of order.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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