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extraction

noun as in removal from whole; distillation

noun as in ancestry, origin

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These range from port expansion to energy production and the infrastructure needed to boost extraction of critical minerals from remote areas.

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For most of the 20th century, the prevailing view of Southern plantations was one of feudal estates with accordingly primitive systems for the extraction of labor and thereby profit from bonded toil.

Statistics Canada’s early look at September indicated increases in finance and insurance, mining and oil and gas extraction, and manufacturing.

Once prepared, the optical signals pass through a diffraction operator that performs the feature extraction.

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“By leveraging Ramaco’s mineral resources and experienced third-party commodity structured finance expertise, the initiative aims to deliver long-term solutions for extraction, processing, and inventory management.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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