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
At the same time, the team developed new paleoproteomics techniques that can extract valuable information from fossils while causing very little damage.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Medical staff and volunteers worked to extract DNA from the unidentified remains.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 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
Their digging to extract the tuber loosened and aerated the soil and fostered regrowth.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
Tests showed that extracts from the bean gum lowered HPV levels by 93% in saliva samples.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
US President Donald Trump's Science and Technology adviser Michael Kratsios said Moonshot AI carried out the campaign through what is known as distillation - when a weaker AI model extracts answers from a stronger one.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
He reaches beneath the counter and extracts the soft-cloth bundle.
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
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Sea salt, meanwhile, refers to salt extracted from ocean water or lakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Then doctors told him about CAR-T treatment, in which a patient’s immune cells are extracted, re-engineered in a laboratory and reintroduced into the body to fight cancer cells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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
"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
Lady Constance reached into her reticule and extracted the same square, cream-colored envelope that Penelope had spotted on the mail tray the previous day.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Ms. Southon is gifted at extracting maximum value from minimal evidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Farmers source 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 ● 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
But Harry had no possibility of extracting the wand concealed under his robes without being noticed by the Death Eaters, who marched on either side of them through the slowly lightening darkness....
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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