extruding

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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

Comrade Pillai had finished his avial and was squashing a ripe banana, extruding the sludge through his closed fist into his plate of curd, when Velutha knocked.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy