raw material
Example Sentences
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The material is difficult to shape, expensive to produce, and often requires more raw material than ultimately ends up in the finished component.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
“We also implemented pricing actions to offset raw material inflation that pressured our gross margin in the quarter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
"But we are actively in discussion with paper manufacturers about how they can produce a raw material in a way that makes it easy to bond."
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Studios worried about their intellectual property being misused, and actors feared becoming little more than raw material for AI systems -- and made it a central plank of their strike action in 2023.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
Considering the urgency of finding a way “to free us from the raw material bottleneck,” he said, “if we can do that for a few hundred million dollars, why, let’s get going and do it.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
