raw material
noun
: crude or processed material that can be converted by manufacture, processing, or combination into a new and useful product
wheat … is raw material for the flour mill—
C. A. Koepke
C. A. Koepke
broadly
: something with a potential for improvement, development, or elaboration
perplexities are often the raw material of discoveries —Agnes M. Clerke
Agnes M. Clerke Examples of raw material in a Sentence
His experiences during the war were the raw material for the story.
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For many streamers, live content becomes the raw material for TikToks, Reels, and YouTube Shorts.
—Emma Cortes Ellendt, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
The raw material was from the Honda Scenes dataset, which has images taken from roughly 80 hours of driving in Northern California; the images are tagged with information about what's in the scene.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 11 Apr. 2025
In 2023, bilateral trade between the two nations surged to $15.2 billion, underscoring a relationship defined as much by raw materials as by strategic interest, according to the U.S. State Department.
—James Laporta, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
Lignin, which the scientists extracted from paper pulp, is a raw material plentiful in any country with a big paper industry — which includes Sweden, but also the U.S. and battery-producing giant China.
—Saul Elbein, The Hill, 11 Apr. 2025
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Emma Cortes Ellendt, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
The raw material was from the Honda Scenes dataset, which has images taken from roughly 80 hours of driving in Northern California; the images are tagged with information about what's in the scene.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 11 Apr. 2025
In 2023, bilateral trade between the two nations surged to $15.2 billion, underscoring a relationship defined as much by raw materials as by strategic interest, according to the U.S. State Department.
—James Laporta, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
Lignin, which the scientists extracted from paper pulp, is a raw material plentiful in any country with a big paper industry — which includes Sweden, but also the U.S. and battery-producing giant China.
—Saul Elbein, The Hill, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Raw material.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/raw%20material. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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