extrication
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The agency said rescuers were "carrying out the evacuation process for the trapped victims using extrication equipment to free them from the wrecked train structures".
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said: "The extrication was especially challenging with fuel lines running throughout the aircraft's chassis and aviation fuel stored in its wings."
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
The extrication of the federal workforce from routine economic activity means comparisons, even after data reporting returns, will be askew until normalization sets back in.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 11, 2025
Had officials issued timely alerts, Shurney said she would have been packing up and arranging for her mother’s extrication.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2025
As the lady's head had apparently been bumping the grass bank for some twenty yards, we supposed she was killed; but, on extrication, she was discovered to be unhurt.
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Greville, Beatrice Violet Graham
Vocabulary lists containing extrication
David Copperfield
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"Introduction to Homeland Security," Vocabulary from Chapter 9
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