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extract

[ik-strakt, ek-strakt, ek-strakt] / ɪkˈstrækt, ˈɛk strækt, ˈɛk strækt /






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Revenue is inadequate to Paris’s spending urges, despite or rather because of high tax rates that extract 51% of French GDP each year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Sold as powder, extract, paste, or frozen puree, ube is easily mixed into coffee, pastries, ice cream, spreads and even make-up.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Even though only small quantities of blood were available, researchers were able to perform additional analyses and extract more scientific information from the existing studies.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

At an event for the project last month, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said the SpaceX development is different from those that sought to extract wealth from the state.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

I couldn’t extract him from the shrubbery without pulling on him, and I didn’t want to touch him.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

"It's undoubtedly better than before. Before, this oil wasn't being extracted; if no one extracts it, no one pays royalties, and no one profits from it," he said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

The company is most known for its camera network, which extracts data about cars from photographs and allows operators to search for vehicles by description or license plate number.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

About 70% of Happy Hippo’s sales come from plain-leaf powder and capsules, with the remainder from concentrated liquid extracts, gummies and flavor-infused taffy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

Garrett extracts his arm from behind my back, leaning forward in his seat.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

Parisi traveled to Oklahoma to obtain the Ames rock core from the Oklahoma Geological Survey, extracted zircon crystals from the material, and helped determine their ages.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Stroll joined Alonso in Q2 and kept himself out of trouble through a chaotic race to finish 12th, even if his team-mate ultimately extracted more from the opportunity.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Sea salt, meanwhile, refers to salt extracted from ocean water or lakes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

He didn’t want the cameras to start rolling just as two women in space suits were extracted from the building.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

"Just by extracting a DNA profile is not enough to identify someone," Thapa said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

He was sent, instead, to a disciplinary Siberia—in his case a Baltic port in Lithuania—where he was tasked with extracting information from Western sailors and businessman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

He wants the government to help local miners establish safer and more effective ways of finding and extracting the gold.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

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

Coalwood, West Virginia, where I grew up, was built for the purpose of extracting the millions of tons of rich bituminous coal that lay beneath it.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam




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