extract
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By doing so, the researchers hope to extract more useful information from each electron, potentially allowing scientists to form clearer images while exposing delicate samples to fewer electrons.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Broadly speaking, he said, “there are people who are trying to spread their religion. There are people who are trying to extract resources from other communities, and then there are people who want status.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
She said she was summoned to a court hearing by police, but decided not to go because she feared officials wanted to use the meeting to extract a bribe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
His accuracy and ability to extract movement have seen him take 23 wickets this summer at a remarkable average of 8.3.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
From this one can extract another notable observation: princes must delegate distasteful tasks to others, while pleasant ones they should keep for themselves.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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"It's undoubtedly better than before. Before, this oil wasn't being extracted; if no one extracts it, no one pays royalties, and no one profits from it," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
The company is most known for its camera network, which extracts data about cars from photographs and allows operators to search for vehicles by description or license plate number.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
This capability could power a continuous measurement engine that extracts useful energy directly from the monitoring process.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
The male police officer in the transcript extracts below is the same officer heard in the video saying, "Don't think you have mate," before restraining him.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
She bade me join her at her cupboard, where her busy fingers darted through small drawers, poured powders into folded papers, and filled several small jars with essences and extracts.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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“The complaint alleges that Amazon’s scheme has likely extracted tens of billions of dollars from its unwitting advertising customers,” the FTC said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
"It's undoubtedly better than before. Before, this oil wasn't being extracted; if no one extracts it, no one pays royalties, and no one profits from it," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
He now runs a bulk-shipping terminal down river from the closed Savannah mill that in an earlier era was where barrels of turpentine, extracted from pine trees, were exported.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
These compounds can then be extracted and turned into plastic-like materials.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Nabila admired my intricate orange henna designs, and Fatima hugged me and didn’t let go until she extracted a promise of a lesson as soon as our work was done.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
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Farmers source water for their crops and livestock over summer from a combination of stored winter rainfall on site, and by extracting it from natural sources - a process called abstraction.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
While its emissions are lower, drilling and extracting it causes the leakage of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas and the main component of natural gas.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
Rather than manually extracting proteins and peptides from tissues and then using methods such as mass spectrometry to identify huge numbers of molecules, the researchers created a computer algorithm called Peptide Predictor.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
Cervo, founded in 2024, created a platform that uses agentic AI to draft customs entries by extracting information off documents about imported goods, automating what was a time-consuming, manual task.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
She kneels on the concrete and fusses in her purse, extracting some tissues.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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