extract
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Tech companies extract information from books, news articles and Wikipedia pages, which copyright holders said is often done without consent, compensation or control over how it is used.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
He thinks it’s likely to become more difficult to extract the remaining oil in the reserve as the market gets closer to the minimums.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
For now, Xi is careful to treat Putin with respect in public even as he seeks to extract concessions in private.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
More than 50 years ago, physicist Sir Roger Penrose proposed a remarkable idea: under the right conditions, it might be possible to extract energy from a rapidly spinning black hole.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Their digging to extract the tuber loosened and aerated the soil and fostered regrowth.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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US President Donald Trump's Science and Technology adviser Michael Kratsios said Moonshot AI carried out the campaign through what is known as distillation - when a weaker AI model extracts answers from a stronger one.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
“They use the words ‘credit repair,’ but what’s really happening here is a negative option that extracts fees from people with the assumption that most people wanted this.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
Carney and Smith cleared a key hurdle toward a new pipeline on Friday by signing a deal on industrial carbon pricing, a system that extracts a fee from large‑scale CO2 emitters.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
With support from FAPESP, the researchers first isolated and characterized extracts from the leaves that were rich in galloylquinic acids.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
West Africans were chewing the caffeine-containing nuts of the latter as a narcotic, long before the Coca-Cola Company enticed first Americans and then the world to drink a beverage originally laced with its extracts.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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The metal is extracted from minerals and rocks such as bauxite and does not occur naturally in its pure form.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
The same private contractors who had extracted her then were already staged on the island.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
With Guthrie missing, the FBI extracted and released doorbell camera images of an armed and masked man outside her home on the morning of her disappearance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
For decades, oil companies had extracted carbon dioxide from the Earth and pumped it back underground to force more oil out under pressure, a process called enhanced oil recovery.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
Three late afternoons a week I spent in a dentist’s chair, where, within a period of a few months, I had eight teeth extracted, three of them front ones.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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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
In June, Anthropic accused Chinese e-commerce and tech giant Alibaba of "illicitly" extracting the capabilities of its Claude AI models using distillation attacks.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
By extracting more computing power from conventional hardware, the approach could expand the range of quantum dynamics problems scientists can study.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
“Uh-oh,” I reply, extracting a Ritz cracker from its sleeve.
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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