extraction
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While agriculture and resource extraction are strong, retail and manufacturing have been sluggish.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
Both cast debt as a bogeyman turning capitalism into an extraction device that, left unchecked or unwisely channeled, can take everything from any of us.
From Salon • May 4, 2026
Many of these processes rely on precious metals like platinum, which are costly and can have significant environmental impacts due to extraction.
From Science Daily • May 1, 2026
However, BP said its upstream production - which refers to the search and extraction of oil and gas - had been flat in the quarter.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Papa told her about this strange neighborhood: how its families had been Americans for more than a hundred years back; how they were mostly Scotch, English and Welsh extraction.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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