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The European Commission said its investment would focus on education, internet connectivity, the use of raw materials in the country and hydropower energy.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
For though 9/11’s wounds remain raw in many respects, a quarter-century has passed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
The restaurant serves more than 10,000 oysters a month, with fresh seafood flown in daily, and the raw bar is an obvious place to start.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
“When my father passed away, it was a very real and raw moment,” Roddenberry said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
I closed the door behind me, breathing through my mouth to keep out the stench of raw sewage wafting from the toilet’s open hole.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
“You don’t get much rawer than there. That can be attractive - if you want to see real life.”
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2024
It’s rawer than I’d grown accustomed to thinking about your music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2024
When he was approached by Sony in 1998, Robison signed with its Lucky Dog imprint, which was devoted to rawer country.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 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
Hailed by Rolling Stone as “the rawest, most revealing music documentary in years,” the film is so unflinching that Perry remained backstage while it played at Tribeca.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
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
That had been sport in its rawest form without a penny at stake.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024
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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