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Rookie Brenen Thompson has impressed coaches and teammates so far with his raw speed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Perhaps more positively, the cost of partly finished goods and raw materials declined again.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 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
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
We keep shouting his name until our throats are raw and sore.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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
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
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
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
Three years ago, the image of a distraught Coco Gauff crying under a towel was one of the rawest moments from a one-sided French Open women's final.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 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
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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