rawness
Example Sentences
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For me, parenting is a humbling experience daily and I felt it was something about this that tapped into a vulnerability and a rawness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
"It's like when the first snows come. It's a tenderness, but there's a rawness to it as well."
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
"Humanity promised itself, in the rawness of that grief, that it would not face such a day again unprepared."
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
Both tap into the rawness of the era’s garage-band songs, such as the Pleasure Seekers’ “What a Way to Die” and the Music Machine’s “Wrong.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026
The rawness of Edna’s grief made her helpless, brought the urge to stretch her hand into the past and reverse history.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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