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  • adjective comparative form of raw: more raw

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Examples

  • 'Pulse X', released a year after 'Eskimo' on white label, is one of the defining moments in grime, which took the evolving sound from garage to a much rawer, sinister new sound.

    Joseph Patterson: Ten Grime Tracks of the Last Decade Joseph Patterson 2011

  • They had both been born on the soil, and they knew its naked simplicities and rawer ways.

    Chapter XXV 2010

  • And when I was in school rawer country from Randy Travis, Alan Jackson, Patty Loveless and Pam Tillis were still pretty present on the radio.

    Country Music's Gutsy, Modern Traditionalist Barry Mazor 2011

  • 'Pulse X', released a year after 'Eskimo' on white label, is one of the defining moments in grime, which took the evolving sound from garage to a much rawer, sinister new sound.

    Joseph Patterson: Ten Grime Tracks of the Last Decade Joseph Patterson 2011

  • Later, in Domingo and Castronovo's duet, the words beat the metaphor theme just about to death: It was the music that made the real point (about the shared excitement of an older mentor and a younger student, backed up by the contrast between Domingo's plummier sound and Castronovo's rawer, lighter one).

    Domingo's tenor lifts respectable, but too literal, 'Il Postino' by Daniel Catán Anne Midgette 2010

  • Emotions are becoming rawer and tempers are fraying at election events across the US, with only a week left to polling and the Democrats facing massive losses.

    'Obama can take his endorsement and shove it' Ewen MacAskill in Washington 2010

  • "We've always been a little rawer in the content we make," said Mr. Alvi, who was preparing for a boat journey up the Congo River "like Joseph Conrad".

    Vice Media Tries to Keep Its Cool Steve Dollar 2011

  • The Detroit blues style of the 1950s, rawer and less refined than the comparable music coming out of Chicago.

    Eddie Kirkland, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 88 2011

  • Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal 'We've always been a little rawer in the content we make,' said Suroosh Alvi, another Vice co-founder.

    Vice's Cool Crowd Goes Corporate 2011

  • Could these four boys from Slough, who revisit the rougher, rawer end of Britpop, signal the revival of the lad band?

    Brother (No 880) Paul Lester 2010

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