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extraction

[ik-strak-shuhn] / ɪkˈstræk ʃən /




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He left his successor the delicate mission of repositioning the company’s strategy around the extraction of fossil fuels rather than disappointing investments in renewable energy.

From The Wall Street Journal

Prices for the battery metal have crashed 90% since 2022, and Australia’s mines proved more economical than Chile’s brine extraction methods.

From Barron's

Different procedures - fillings, extractions and more complicated work - are assigned a different number of UDAs.

From BBC

Instead, there was clear evidence of extraction, where the earth had been dug up, leaving behind an unsightly landscape.

From BBC

It was early Tuesday morning when the extraction team rescued her.

From The Wall Street Journal