extracted

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The same private contractors who had extracted her then were already staged on the island.

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

The researchers extracted proteins from this waste stream and assembled them into long thread-like structures known as amyloid fibrils.

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

“We want to look at the full life cycle … not only thinking from the cradle to the grave, but from the point where the raw materials are extracted at the beginning,” Stanton says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

The group also extracted DNA from fourteen Botocudo skulls in the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann