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extract
noun as in something condensed from whole
verb as in physically remove, draw out
Example Sentences
Hamas’s reign of violence has already extracted at least one concession.
The oil is extracted from sources such as soybeans, palm fruit, canola seeds, sunflower seeds, and corn, and is then refined, bleached, and deodorized to make it more palatable.
The term is used to describe a group of chemically similar minerals which are abundant in the Earth's crust – but which are also comparatively difficult and costly to extract.
The powerful friends were claimed to include Prince Andrew and the extract published in the Guardian gives her account of when they met in London in March 2001, when she was aged 17.
Because stars are fluid bodies, they can develop internal waves that can sometimes crash and extract energy from a planet's orbit in peculiar ways.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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