extract
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Revenue is inadequate to Paris’s spending urges, despite or rather because of high tax rates that extract 51% of French GDP each year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
It fell to USIP’s security chief to extract what in the end amounted to 256 people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Small variations in magnetic field strength cause the structure to produce a subtle "wobble," potentially allowing an organism to extract detailed information about its geographic position.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
"We have to extract a DNA profile from their relatives and then compare".
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Does this mean torturing nature to extract an answer?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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According to book extracts published by Haaretz, UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan had a phone call with Netanyahu that September.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 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
In tests involving oral samples from patients, extracts from the gum sharply reduced one virus and two types of bacteria linked to the disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Waste Management has access to a vast above-ground mine of valuable commodities but wants to improve how it extracts them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
He was encouraged to write a letter to the Althingi, the Icelandic parliament, and he composed a five-hundred-word plea, extracts of which follow:
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Those roots contain fragrant compounds that can be extracted to make essential oils.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
"We want an industry run in the interests of people and the environment, with its income reinvested in the system rather than extracted from it."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Sea salt, meanwhile, refers to salt extracted from ocean water or lakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Then doctors told him about CAR-T treatment, in which a patient’s immune cells are extracted, re-engineered in a laboratory and reintroduced into the body to fight cancer cells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Moody watched, half hidden by a tree, as she picked her way around to the Rabbit, which sat in the driveway with its doors thrown wide, and extracted the footboard from the backseat.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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Other companies are extracting insights from large amounts of data for algorithmic-pricing strategies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
He, too, said he abstains from getting involved due to the damage illegal mining does to the land, especially as a result of the chemicals used for extracting gold.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Librettists Kelley Rourke and Matt Foss have skillfully adapted the story, extracting its essential events and distilling them into a taut 90 minutes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Two other Republicans who had threatened Blanche’s nomination, Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, ultimately voted to confirm him after extracting concessions.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
“If he’s already in Rûm, extracting him will be difficult.”
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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