How to Use raw deal in a Sentence
raw deal
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But this whole line of discussion is still kind of a raw deal.
—Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 26 Feb. 2018
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Even some of the biggest stars in U.S. running seemed to be getting a raw deal.
—Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 12 May 2020
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In a statement to Fox News, McCabe's lawyers said, his client got a raw deal from his old boss.
—Fox News, 19 Apr. 2018
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But the truth is, for us dividend investors, gold is a raw deal.
—Michael Foster, Forbes, 11 June 2022
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No matter what raw deal the world gives her, this is not an artist who will be settling for less.
—Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2022
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The Heisman winner and former UO star got a raw deal with the Titans.
—John Canzano, oregonlive, 18 Dec. 2020
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In Chinese, as in other languages, wolves get a raw deal.
—The Economist, 27 Feb. 2021
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Nobody can make a passionate case that Zenger got a raw deal.
—Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 21 May 2018
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The only upside: David Culley seems like a great guy who got a raw deal in his first season as coach of the Texans.
—Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
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In one sense, last December’s draw saw Portugal receive one of the rawest deals of them all.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 7 June 2018
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The streaming wars have created an arms race for the hottest shows and movies, but the writers behind them are getting a raw deal.
—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2021
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One last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.
—SI.com, 23 Aug. 2019
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Their coach, Kelvin Sampson, got a raw deal at Indiana.
—Steven F. Shundich, The Enquirer, 26 Mar. 2021
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This is not a film for the squeamish, the easily depressed or anyone who thinks that men have had a raw deal of it lately.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 7 July 2022
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Hearthstone gets the rawest deal of all: The players are sequestered in an alcove deep down a lonely hallway.
—Luke Winkie, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2019
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The share who think the nominee got a raw deal has increased sharply, and the change is significant at a p < 0.01 level.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 4 Oct. 2018
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So repurchases suddenly look like a raw deal, at least in the short term.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2020
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In this turbulent era, there’s almost a nostalgic appeal to the grifter, who rejects the raw deal of birth.
—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
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Mothers who for some reason could not get a job — or go on disability — got a raw deal.
—New York Times, 15 May 2018
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Is anyone tossed into the Wild Card race getting a raw deal just because their teammate is a favorite?
—Maggie Fremont, EW.com, 19 May 2021
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That's a bit of a raw deal for a team that is unanimously considered to have improved this summer.
—Richard Morin, azcentral, 16 July 2019
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Should the Nafta talks collapse—or Mexico be seen as getting a raw deal in any agreement—Mr.
—Dudley Althaus, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
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That’s a raw deal for someone with your interests and inclinations, but life’s full of raw deals.
—David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 27 Nov. 2020
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First Kentucky got a raw deal, and then Arkansas was robbed of its first victory against Auburn since that four-overtime game in 2015.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 27 Oct. 2020
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In some industries—such as airlines, telecoms and retail banking—the public seems to be getting a raw deal.
—The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
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There’s an alternative to the raw deal on trade for American workers, one that has nothing to do with Trump’s threats or face-saving deals.
—David Dayen, The New Republic, 27 Mar. 2018
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Whether Caligula got a raw deal from history is a subject of hot and unyielding debate.
—New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
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As for the people who are running for office, one of them seems to be getting a raw deal from the Commission on Presidential Debates.
—James Freeman, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
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Inside both Visa and Plaid, the feeling was that the Justice Department’s discovery process had given the companies a raw deal.
—Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 16 June 2021
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The answer: a patriarchy without any promise of protection—a raw deal.
—Jeet Heer, New Republic, 29 Sep. 2017
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