How to Use a raw deal in a Sentence
a raw deal
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But around five years ago, life handed him a raw deal.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025
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Oldest kids always get a raw deal.
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Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
4 Aug. 2025
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Invest in improving the in-office experience—for real To those who must be on-site, hybrid work can feel like a raw deal.
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Jason Ma,
Fortune,
12 Oct. 2025
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Listen to him bum-rush a workers’ union meeting and begin describing, with over-enthusiastic earnestness, how dogs get a raw deal.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
17 Oct. 2025
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The doc makes a case that she was given a raw deal, that her lawyer was simply not up to the task of handling her defense, and that she never should have been asked about her use of such terms in relation to the lawsuit at all.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Sep. 2025
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From our 21st-century perch, most contemporary women have no trouble believing that the great women writers of the 19th century got a raw deal.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
4 Mar. 2026
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Much of the country has come to see its commitments to free trade, collective security, and global institutions not as sources of American primacy but as a raw deal—a way for the world to free-ride on American power.
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Ian Bremmer,
Time,
25 June 2026
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Israeli far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Monday dismissed the Board of Peace as a raw deal for Israel and called for its dissolution.
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Samy Magdy,
Fortune,
19 Jan. 2026
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