extract

Example Sentences

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A small team would be needed to extract the uranium, assuming it could be found in a single location.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

“Augmented reality could end up looking a lot like the royalty layer in smartphones, where a small set of IP owners extract value from a much larger hardware ecosystem,” Boloor said.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

In 1947, McCormick bought San Francisco’s A. Schilling & Co., a coffee, spice and extract company, building the business’s coast-to-coast distribution in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

That’s the goal of Interlune, a startup founded by Blue Origin veterans that has raised at least $18 million to mine and extract resources on the moon and ship them back to Earth.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

He pried out the jaw of one fossil from the rock, like a mad dentist, then returned the next week to extract a huge skull from the quartz.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee