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This seeming inconsistency is explained away with a Jesuitical distinction between red-raw competition and the gently expressed possibility that healthcare providers and purchasers may agree between themselves to curb costs.
Health service reform: Perils of the cut-price knife | Editorial 2011
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The skin is pulled and misshapen, flesh-toned in places and red-raw in others.
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The skin is pulled and misshapen, flesh-toned in places and red-raw in others.
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Listening to the Gramofonica podcasts that Mof occasionally slings out is like accidentally tuning into the best radio station ever in the middle of the night; where deep reggae, red-raw garage, vat-aged soul and lost psych folk masterpieces nestle together to create one of the most joyous listening experiences we can remember.
Babysitting Hecklerspray: A brief hello from your new master, Mof Gimmers 2007
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A young guy helped me up the last stair and by the time I was walking the sidewalk towards the community house where I'm temporarily staying, my arm and red-raw hand would last about 15 feet before I needed to stop again for a break.
My first day in New York A. Bennett 2009
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With a shudder of revulsion, he also recognised the red-raw, pockmarked features of one of the two men who had set about him on the night of the riot at the Op'ra in the Passage des Panoramas.
Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007
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He looked down at a gnarled hand with knuckles that stood out, red-raw and callused.
Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004
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He looked down at a gnarled hand with knuckles that stood out, red-raw and callused.
Above Suspicion Lynda La Plante 2004
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It was half a cow - udders, hindquarters with muscles red-raw and still jigging.
Cal Laverty, Bernard Mac 1983
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To complete the drear picture a row of rusty-black vultures sat along the broad naked limb of the nearest of these hulks, their red-raw heads upraised as they croaked and sidled up and down.
Ralestone Luck Andre Norton 1958
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