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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
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.
—Samy Magdy, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2026
Progressive advocates blasted Democrats for supporting the map and called it a raw deal for Cincinnati voters in particular.
—Haley Bemiller, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Nov. 2025
Its songs are filled with workingmen getting a raw deal—losing a job, losing a mortgaged house to a bank, owing money, accepting work for a gangster, bearing the burden of a boss’s disfavor, being broke and turning to crime, trying to live with the trauma of military service in the Vietnam War.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2025
Listen to him bum-rush a workers’ union meeting and begin describing, with over-enthusiastic earnestness, how dogs get a raw deal.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Oldest kids always get a raw deal.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
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Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Mar. 2026
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.
—Samy Magdy, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2026
Progressive advocates blasted Democrats for supporting the map and called it a raw deal for Cincinnati voters in particular.
—Haley Bemiller, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Nov. 2025
Its songs are filled with workingmen getting a raw deal—losing a job, losing a mortgaged house to a bank, owing money, accepting work for a gangster, bearing the burden of a boss’s disfavor, being broke and turning to crime, trying to live with the trauma of military service in the Vietnam War.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2025
Listen to him bum-rush a workers’ union meeting and begin describing, with over-enthusiastic earnestness, how dogs get a raw deal.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Oldest kids always get a raw deal.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
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