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extrude

[ik-strood] / ɪkˈstrud /


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Things have disintegrated since, hastened by the predictable filleting of goods and services to extrude every last cent of value.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

To print a new material from scratch, one must typically set up to 100 parameters in software that controls how the printer will extrude the material as it fabricates an object.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024

Large language models such as ChatGPT extrude remarkably fluent and coherent-seeming text but have no understanding of what the text means, let alone the ability to reason.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 12, 2023

All Soviet attempts to extrude the United States from West Berlin after 1945 had failed.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2017

By 3 in the afternoon, the Austrians have forced the Maxen Post; they "enter Maxen with great shoutings;" extrude the obstinate Prussian remnants; and, before long, have the poor Village "on fire in every part."

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle

“When a movie finds its running length and you see the shape of what it should be, it extrudes things it doesn’t need,” says Tony Kushner, who co-wrote “The Fabelmans” with director Steven Spielberg.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2023

This combines a nozzle that extrudes molten polymer with one that prints light-sensitive resin, ready to be cured by ultraviolet lamps or lasers, and two that print wires and circuitry from tiny dots of metal13.

From Nature ● Feb. 4, 2020

It’s the rare pub that extrudes fresh pasta for its mac and cheese.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2018

A provider may look at how well the baby lifts and extrudes his tongue, and how well he sucks—but the diagnosis is often more art than science.

From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2018

From the tip of the tongue the creature extrudes two small filaments of a pinkish colour which wriggle about, bearing a perfect resemblance to the small round worms of which fishes are so fond.

From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by William Beebe

Individual strands of acrylic paint are extruded from syringes, dried, and woven into the blazer-and-skirt ensemble “Anna.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The ingredients were mixed and melted at 135 degrees Celsius, then extruded as thin strips of plastic.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2024

During busy, difficult periods of my life, I used to order something called a buffalo chicken roller, a log of breaded, extruded ground chicken in a menacing shade of red.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

The whole concoction gets extruded through a machine that pressure-cooks it into bite-sized, cereallike bits.

From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2023

As the note progressed, his handwriting shrank, until it seemed like something extruded rather than written.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

One of those is 3D printing, which involves extruding concrete or other materials to build up the walls of a house.

From BBC ● May 23, 2024

By first dissolving the peptides in water and then extruding them into a salty solution, they were able to create aligned peptide nanofibers -- like twisted strands of rope smaller than a cell.

From Science Daily ● May 3, 2024

A blustery snowstorm is a tight knot of dancers, dressed in winter whites, alternately engulfing and extruding passersby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2019

It was a deceptively simple-looking open-sided box with a nozzle for extruding fine threads of plastic — over the course of minutes or hours, those threads would be painstakingly layered to form an object.

From The Verge ● Dec. 10, 2019

I’d seen hundreds of shattered windshields in the junkyard, each one unique, with its particular spray of gossamer extruding from the point of impact, a chronicle of the collision.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover




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