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extract

[ik-strakt, ek-strakt, ek-strakt] / ɪkˈstrækt, ˈɛk strækt, ˈɛk strækt /






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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

North Carolina’s Administrative Office of the Courts said it sends a daily extract of expunged cases to a data analytics center for use by the State Bureau of Investigation and other agencies.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 2026

Afterward, the researchers extract a relatively thick oil from the solvent that functions as a lubricant.

From Science Daily Aug. 29, 2026

On the Nepali side of the border, the military located people trapped in the tunnel of the Trishuli 3A hydropower project, where they were working to find a way in to extract the survivors.

From Barron's Aug. 29, 2026

Whoever had eaten it must have had a great appetite, for his teeth had cut right into the bone to extract its goodness.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith

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

For humans, the abundant minerals and anti-inflammatory properties of certain seaweeds have seen their extracts used in medicines from treating acid reflux to wound dressings.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

This capability could power a continuous measurement engine that extracts useful energy directly from the monitoring process.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

He reaches beneath the counter and extracts the soft-cloth bundle.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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 the rare earth concentrate has been extracted from the wastewater, the individual elements must then be separated out and processed.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

To investigate whether keratin could overcome some of these limitations, the researchers created membranes from keratin extracted from wool.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

It would be an insult to her memory not to use the information I extracted from her, Wormtail.”

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Farmers source additional water for their crops and livestock over summer from a combination of stored winter rainfall on site, and by extracting it from natural sources - a process called abstraction.

From BBC Aug. 5, 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

Rather than manually extracting proteins and peptides from tissues and then using methods such as mass spectrometry to identify huge numbers of molecules, the researchers created a computer algorithm called Peptide Predictor.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

Cervo, founded in 2024, created a platform that uses agentic AI to draft customs entries by extracting information off documents about imported goods, automating what was a time-consuming, manual task.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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