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“Inspired by Balinese architecture and thoughtfully reimagined through a distinctly Californian lens, the residence celebrates natural materials, soaring timber ceilings, expansive walls of glass, and raw, textured stone,” the listing description notes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
And though “Tony” doesn’t entirely lack that heady romanticization, its choice to amplify its introductory quote — making Bourdain an even more insufferable lout for dramatic effect — feels antithetical to Bourdain’s raw candor.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Maintaining a custom health dashboard can take long sessions of prompting and re-prompting with AI, along with navigating tedious workarounds to export raw metrics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Problems on the Rhine have already prompted some German companies, including steelmaker Thyssenkrupp and chemical giant BASF, to use shallow-draft ships to continue transporting raw materials and finished products.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
Despite the enchanted gloves that were part of her outfit, Seven’s hands felt raw with cold.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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
Whether the shorter, rawer Prem hits that sweet spot will be seen next season.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025
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
New producer Jimmy Miller helps strip the band down to its rawest, raunchiest essence on songs like “Sympathy for the Devil,” “Stray Cat Blues,” and “Street Fighting Man.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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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