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The Confederacy desperately needed money, while the Union needed cotton for uniforms and bandages for its soldiers, as well as raw stock for hospital linens, soldiers’ knapsacks and much more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Memories of the devastating 2020-2022 Tigray war remain raw for many residents.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

We used sales per share for the screen, rather than raw revenue, because the per-share figures incorporate dilution to the share count caused by the issuance of stock.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

One of the most intriguing findings concerns where gut bacteria obtain the raw materials used to produce harmful metabolites.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

All my nerves felt raw now, as though the dream had flayed me.

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

Justin Torres: I read this a while ago when it was in rawer form, and now I have this beautiful hardback.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2025

“In some way, we’re in the early Cold War – the Fifties and Sixties, so a much rawer time.”

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 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

"Hatred is the rawest, smelliest, most awful thing that anyone stood in the middle of," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

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