extract
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Upstream units, which extract oil and gas, are posting bumper profits on higher prices after customers scrambled to replace the supply stuck in the Gulf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Cocoa extract did not produce a significant improvement in functional health scores across the study population as a whole.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
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
That gives ServiceNow a “key strategic advantage versus third-party AI tools” that need to extract, contextualize and reintegrate data across platforms, Bank of America analyst Tal Liani wrote in a Thursday note.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
He asked this as if, having had the good fortune to catch such a rare bird as myself, he was anxious to extract my opinion while I was still captive in his office.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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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
It's a far cry from basin depths in Silesia -- a historic coal mining region in southern Poland where he still extracts the ore.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 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
"We will face up to the big challenges and we will make the big arguments," he is expected to say, according to extracts released by Downing Street.
From BBC ● May 10, 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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A total of nine bodies were recovered, and two survivors were extracted.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
The car lacked the pace to contend for points, but Ocon at least extracted more from the difficult weekend than Bearman.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
First, I had raccoons, which we extracted with help from a trapper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
After producing both proposed versions of the molecules, the team compared them with samples extracted from rye pollen.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026
That sounded about as much fun as Chinese water torture or getting his teeth extracted.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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Farmers source additional 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 ● Aug. 5, 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
"In Sweden our possibilities for extracting REE, even when compared internationally, are relatively good," he says.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026
“For these guys,” Banks said, the goal “is extraction,” and “what they’re extracting is not just our money, but our data.”
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Coalwood, West Virginia, where I grew up, was built for the purpose of extracting the millions of tons of rich bituminous coal that lay beneath it.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 12–15
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