raw material
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The raw material for this enterprise is a 2012 tweet by El-Sayed’s half-sister describing a conversation with their mother about her activism in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in the early 1970s.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
Leaves also created the raw material for trees’ bark and wood, and even the suction to lift water far from the roots via a network of internal plumbing called xylem.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Besides a growing reliance on inputs and raw material, Chinese imports to India are also being propelled by other macroeconomic trends.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
They could more readily imagine the bean becoming cattle feed or an industrial raw material – which is exactly how its use evolved, at first.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
It is precisely this quality that makes facts the raw material of science, for science, too, is a peculiar amalgam of the real and the cultural.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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