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But it is unsafe to eat raw poultry because of the food poisoning risk from harmful bacteria.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Bessent’s comments show that the recent spike in rates at the long end of the bond market has “hit a raw nerve” in the White House, said Chris Turner, a markets strategist for ING.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Excluding crude energy products, raw material costs declined 1.5% for the month but were up 16.7% year-over-year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Infants, young children, those who are pregnant and older adults should only eat runny or raw eggs if they have a British Lion mark or are produced under the Laid in Britain egg assurance scheme.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
My body was a knot of raw nerves and nausea, my lungs crushed against my rib cage like a prisoner in an iron maiden.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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
He shares with the architectural reactionaries the impulse toward rawer, less manufactured surroundings.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 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
It is golf in its rawest form with a place in the game's most historic tournament at stake.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
The rawest and most prevalent emotions were still tied to the Lakers’ losing 4-1 to Minnesota in a best-of-seven series in which were beaten by “the better team,” Redick said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 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
Fatoumata Diawara, from Mali, rides a galloping six-beat modal groove topped by the Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca in “Blues,” which is by far the rawest song on her new album of international fusions, “London Ko.”
From New York Times ● May 12, 2023
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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