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
“In addition to lower volumes and weaker mix, we expect profitability to be weighed down by higher raw material costs, increased depreciation and amortization, and elevated supplier-related expenses.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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
"Gas giants like Jupiter must assemble their massive atmospheres while the disk is still substantial enough to supply them, before winds and jets carry that raw material away into space."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
A never-ending line of carts brought the raw material in—thousands of skins, goat, calf, lizard and snake skins—and took them away again tanned, dyed and finished.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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