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extract

[ik-strakt, ek-strakt, ek-strakt] / ɪkˈstrækt, ˈɛk strækt, ˈɛk strækt /






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Press firmly on the peaches with the back of a spoon to extract as much liquid, color and flavor as possible.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

Just like all young professionals, Fin spent hours every day trying to extract as much performance as possible.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

The hippo liked it there, so it took a while to extract the animal from the muddy waters to the delight of the locals.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

"There are many long dinosaur trackways around the world where this method could be applied to extract behavioral information that was previously inaccessible."

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Ever since I'd come to London, I'd been getting into situations from which someone else had had to extract me.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

The company is most known for its camera network, which extracts data about cars from photographs and allows operators to search for vehicles by description or license plate number.

From Salon Aug. 17, 2026

This capability could power a continuous measurement engine that extracts useful energy directly from the monitoring process.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

The male police officer in the transcript extracts below is the same officer heard in the video saying, "Don't think you have mate," before restraining him.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

Waste Management has access to a vast above-ground mine of valuable commodities but wants to improve how it extracts them.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

It inserts these minute and stiletto-sharp mouth parts into the outer cells of leaves and evergreen needles and extracts the chlorophyll.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

To investigate whether keratin could overcome some of these limitations, the researchers created membranes from keratin extracted from wool.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

Asked about the lawsuit during questioning, Turner said, “We’re working on that right now,” then shifted to a brown lunch bag pulled from the lectern from which he extracted several items.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

Once refined to improve its purity, the extracted gold is used to make jewellery for the Royal Mint's "886" brand, which refers to the date the institution was founded.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

Reporters programmatically extracted compensation tables, footnotes and other explanations of perquisites mentioned in the filings and fed the results to an LLM which parsed the amount, type and beneficiary of each perk.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

Harry rummaged once more in his trunk, extracted his money bag, and shoved some gold into Stan’s hand.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

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 June, Anthropic accused Chinese e-commerce and tech giant Alibaba of "illicitly" extracting the capabilities of its Claude AI models using distillation attacks.

From BBC Jul. 23, 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

By extracting more computing power from conventional hardware, the approach could expand the range of quantum dynamics problems scientists can study.

From Science Daily Jul. 20, 2026

All humans presumably did so too, until improved technology for extracting food allowed some hunter-gatherers to settle in permanent dwellings in some resource-rich areas.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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