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Both tap into the rawness of the era’s garage-band songs, such as the Pleasure Seekers’ “What a Way to Die” and the Music Machine’s “Wrong.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

The best salads mix the cooked — a little caramelized onion, roasted red pepper, maybe a chopped artichoke heart — with the crisp rawness of shaved fennel, scallions or celery.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

From the "rawness" of the "athletic" goalkeeper he first watched at French side Reims, to the "refined" number one she has become, Skinner has high hopes for what is next.

From BBC • May 15, 2025

Readers and critics will discover that her memoir is revelatory, relatable and, in its confessional rawness, “very whoa.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

We wished we were back in the mountains but the spring weather lasted only a few days and then the cold rawness of the breaking-up of winter came again.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway