extract
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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
"We've shown that we're able to extract a tremendous amount of new information from these parchments without harming them," says Breen.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
In Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan province, dozens of excavators operate day and night to extract gold from the mountains where villagers and their livestock once roamed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
It is an extract from a report by patrol officers responsible for tackling anti-social behaviour, who were out in the Coniston area one weekend in July.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Does this mean torturing nature to extract an answer?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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In tests involving oral samples from patients, extracts from the gum sharply reduced one virus and two types of bacteria linked to the disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
“They use the words ‘credit repair,’ but what’s really happening here is a negative option that extracts fees from people with the assumption that most people wanted this.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
Hamilton Lane has also gotten heat External link for booking profits on the discounts it extracts when acquiring pieces of private-equity and credit funds from other investors.
From Barron's ● May 28, 2026
"We will face up to the big challenges and we will make the big arguments," he is expected to say, according to extracts released by Downing Street.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
Together with extracts from Books of Lore translated by Bilbo in Rivendell.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has sought to regulate the industry, with spokesman Hamayoun Afghan saying resources "used to be extracted erratically; it wasn't done under supervision" by the previous government.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
Peridotite in the mantle becomes depleted in melt components when melt generated by partial melting is extracted.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
The furnaces operate at extreme temperatures, with iron ore and coking coal poured in at the top and liquid iron extracted at the bottom.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Wash extracted three additional feet, four hands and two heads painted with garish grins.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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Two other Republicans who had threatened Blanche’s nomination, Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, ultimately voted to confirm him after extracting concessions.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
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
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
Another group of men toiled in a quarry, extracting large rocks.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
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