extract

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At the individual level, you may extract much more or much less than you paid in, depending on accidents such as your life span.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

"In our tests with ambient air, we were able to extract 97 milligrams of CO2 with one gram of material," explains Zhou Dong, a postdoctoral researcher in Mezzenga's group and lead author of the study.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

Anthropic also said it had identified large-scale attempts to extract its technology to train competing AI models in authoritarian countries, and these type of queries will also fall back to the less powerful model.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

If these sequels prove anything, it’s that “Cars” was never about the insights it could provide the audience, but rather, the money it could extract from their wallets.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

In addition, within recent years, molecular geneticists have begun to extract DNA from ancient human skeletons and to compare the genes of Japan’s ancient and modern populations.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond