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He's skydived, eaten raw fish eyes on I'm a Celebrity...
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Holder is now distilling hundreds of hours of raw camera footage for a documentary currently titled “Lindsey’s Game,” which he said he wants to release in the coming months.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
"We will no longer tolerate the raw exportation of our wealth," President Emmerson Mnangagwa said this week as he opened an industrialisation conference.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
From Nigella Lawson’s riff on a Caesar salad to creamy lettuce soup, here are a few ways to cook and enjoy a produce item that’s typically eaten cold and raw.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
“Emotion is the cornerstone of humanity, my child. It’s not something that can be avoided. Even my power is drawn from raw emotion. You’ve seen that, haven’t you?”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi 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
“You don’t get much rawer than there. That can be attractive - if you want to see real life.”
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2024
As these rawer images came out, what struck you?
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2023
There’s a glossy sheen and an intensity of color to their images, a level of aestheticization that initially seems inconsistent with Ben Hania’s pursuit of a rawer, messier truth.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
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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