extract
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Broadly speaking, he said, “there are people who are trying to spread their religion. There are people who are trying to extract resources from other communities, and then there are people who want status.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Officials were able to use new technology to extract DNA and retest the same remains.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Who will finance this oil production and which companies will invest to extract it?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Afterward, the researchers extract a relatively thick oil from the solvent that functions as a lubricant.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
He detected no respiratory infection but prescribed shots of liver and placenta extract, a novel therapy for weakened immune systems.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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"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
The shelves are lined with apothecary bottles that twinkle like jewels, as well as clear jars and magnificent flasks containing resins, balms, waxes, and oils made from flowers, plant secretions, and extracts.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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
“The complaint alleges that Amazon’s scheme has likely extracted tens of billions of dollars from its unwitting advertising customers,” the FTC said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Once companies had extracted all the easy-to-reach coal, miners were forced to bore deeper into the rock, which sent fine silica dust into the air.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Von Guericke had demonstrated how two hemispheres from which the air had been extracted were held so tightly together by air pressure that teams of horses could not pull them apart.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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One activist has dedicated herself to extracting them from insurgent groups, and bringing them to a refuge she has made in an old house in Mae Sot, where she tries to get them work experience.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
While its emissions are lower, drilling and extracting it causes the leakage of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas and the main component of natural gas.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
“For these guys,” Banks said, the goal “is extraction,” and “what they’re extracting is not just our money, but our data.”
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
By extracting more computing power from conventional hardware, the approach could expand the range of quantum dynamics problems scientists can study.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
He was fastidious about his fine black suit and stovepipe hat, extracting lint from the fabric and glaring at it as if it were a poison spider before flicking it.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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