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as in uncooked
not cooked
you should wash your hands after handling raw chicken
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2
as in crude
being such as found in nature and not altered by processing or refining
raw sugar is honey-colored because the crystals retain cane juices, minerals, and other impurities that haven't been refined out
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as in inexperienced
lacking in adult experience or maturity
recruiters like to say the military turns raw youths into responsible men and women
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as in turbulent
marked by wet and windy conditions
the day of the funeral turned out to be one of those bleak, blustery, raw winter days that was as gloomy as our spirits
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as in chilling
uncomfortably cool
evenings in those mountains, even during the summer, tend to be a little raw
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as in biting
causing intense discomfort to one's skin
bundle up if you're going sailing, as there's a raw wind out there in the bay
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as in rampant
showing no signs of being under control
a frightening display of raw anger
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as in naked
lacking or shed of clothing
a pristine stretch of sand where beachgoers commonly sunbathe raw
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as in nudity
the state of having no clothes on one's body
a secluded swimming hole where we could swim in the raw
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Recent Examples of raw
The Editors, National Review, 8 Apr. 2025
That raw urgency did more to move the needle on gun reform in Tennessee than any 12-point policy plan ever could.
—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
Ebony Day, azcentral, 25 Dec. 2019
Tim RoneyGetty Images Her 1995 raw, ragey, best-selling album, Jagged Little Pill, spoke to a generation—and inspired a musical of the same name, opening on Broadway this month.
—Alanis Morissette, Marie Claire, 8 Nov. 2019
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Adjective
But, if duty to their oaths does not move them, the raw chaos of the last five days should certainly substitute as motivation.
—The Editors, National Review, 8 Apr. 2025
That raw urgency did more to move the needle on gun reform in Tennessee than any 12-point policy plan ever could.
—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
Employee cracked a raw shelled egg with gloved hands then handled a clean plate and kitchen utensils without washing hands between tasks.
—Ebony Day, azcentral, 25 Dec. 2019
Tim RoneyGetty Images Her 1995 raw, ragey, best-selling album, Jagged Little Pill, spoke to a generation—and inspired a musical of the same name, opening on Broadway this month.
—Alanis Morissette, Marie Claire, 8 Nov. 2019
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Its menu, not yet finalized, will feature Nigerian pepper soup with turkey breast, red chili and olive oil, roast beef kebabs with black and red pepper and passata (uncooked tomato puree), along with whole fried and stewed fish.—
Rod Stafford Hagwood,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Apr. 2025
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But whatever happens, hopefully the governor will use uncooked numbers this time.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
29 Mar. 2025
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The price of crude oil tumbled to its lowest level since 2021.—
Elaine Kurtenbach,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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More so, because bearish sentiment was already well entrenched in world’s crude markets before the latest events unfolded.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Losses weren’t quite as dire as on Thursday for media and tech stocks, but the morning still signaled a glum end to a turbulent week.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
4 Apr. 2025
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From playing a spirited college student in All American: Homecoming to navigating the turbulent world of Snowfall, Williams has mastered the art of transformation.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
4 Apr. 2025
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But the vampires’ descent on the juke joint ups the suspense and becomes genuinely scary, at first with the unsettling charm of their ancient leader, Remmick (Jack O’Connell, chilling), and eventually the brutal carnage of their siege.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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This will have a chilling effect for founders and innovators in the crypto/digital asset space looking to build infrastructure, particularly involving privacy preserving technology.—
Andrea Tinianow,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Many of his biting posts have gone viral, drawing thousands of shares and millions of views.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2025
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The criticism from Barney Ronay at The Guardian was even more biting.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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More recently, China’s rampant overfishing of its own coastal waters has meant expanding fishing in the South China Sea and using fishing fleets to assert new territorial claims.—
Bradley J. Cardinale,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2025
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Economic piracy in Southeast Asia is especially rampant in the Strait of Malacca, a critical shipping channel off the coast of Malaysia.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Mar. 2025
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Although eclipse glasses were essential to see any other part of the eclipse, totality was strictly a naked eyesight.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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In Caruso, voters saw a former Republican, and an antiabortion one at that, who had switched his party affiliation for naked political expediency.—
Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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The exemptions were a rare piece of good news for the battered financial markets, and U.S. stocks closed higher Monday.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2025
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By 1815, machine breaking had become rare, but the plight of the artisans remained dire.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Raw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raw. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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