extracted
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When Boeing bought the company it was preserving its own supply chain, and for that Spirit extracted a large premium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
“The complaint alleges that Amazon’s scheme has likely extracted tens of billions of dollars from its unwitting advertising customers,” the FTC said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Once companies had extracted all the easy-to-reach coal, miners were forced to bore deeper into the rock, which sent fine silica dust into the air.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
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
The huge femoral bones that Darwin had extracted from the soil belonged to a vast, elephant-size llama; its smaller current version was unique to South America.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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