extracted

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The system extracted lithium at rates up to 10 times higher than sodium and 12 times higher than potassium.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2026

To start, each box contains sunflower lecithin, which is extracted from sunflower oil, a seed oil.

From Salon • May 23, 2026

That equates to 72 cents of every dollar not going to R&D but being extracted from payers and patients who are desperate for more affordable access.

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

"For too long, Africa's resources have been extracted, the value captured elsewhere," António Guterres said, calling for more local processing, manufacturing and industrialisation.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

So that when she noticed the complicity between father and daughter the only promise she extracted from Aureliano Segundo was that he would never take Meme to Petra Cotes's house.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez