extract
Example Sentences
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While Venezuela sits on the planet’s largest oil reserves—holding more than Saudi Arabia—its sludge-like petroleum from regions like the Orinoco Belt is expensive and technically difficult to extract.
"It's true that there are huge quantities of minerals of various kinds in Greenland. However, it also costs a lot of money to extract those minerals."
From BBC
“Make them more efficient with AI on, extract that wasted energy to supply it.”
That appeals to Australia’s Ionic Rare Earths, which extracts rare earths from magnets at a plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and is plotting an expansion into the U.S.
Denmark has opened the door to new U.S. military bases on the island as well as new investments in extracting critical minerals.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.