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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
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
On Thursday, Senator Elizabeth Warren called on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to ensure that Trump’s announcement doesn’t stick American taxpayers and workers with a raw deal.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Oldest kids always get a raw deal.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
Did Minnesota get a raw deal with this arrangement?
—Jim Reineking, USA Today, 16 May 2025
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Samy Magdy, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2026
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
On Thursday, Senator Elizabeth Warren called on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to ensure that Trump’s announcement doesn’t stick American taxpayers and workers with a raw deal.
—Emily Baker-White, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Oldest kids always get a raw deal.
—Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025
Did Minnesota get a raw deal with this arrangement?
—Jim Reineking, USA Today, 16 May 2025
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“A raw deal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20raw%20deal. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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