extricate
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As for what you can do: Extricate yourself!
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022
His mission: Extricate from the Kremlin a female double-agent whom he knows.
From Washington Post
Extricate is not the word, you blockhead; extract, I suppose you mean.
From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Hall, Basil
Extricate, eks′tri-kāt, v.t. to free from hinderances or perplexities: to disentangle: to set free.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Extricate the most comely or comical picture of the departed from recesses of recall or from the picture archive.
From Rhyme and Reason; a Compilation of Verses, Rhymes and Senses by Dom
Vocabulary lists containing extricate
Ender's Game
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" (1967)
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