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extract

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






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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

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

Some 350 workers and residents have been brought to safety from the tunnel, he added, but efforts were ongoing to extract more than 100 people trapped in the same area.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

He thought of the memory Dumbledore had not yet been able to extract from Slughorn.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

According to book extracts published by Haaretz, UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan had a phone call with Netanyahu that September.

From BBC Sep. 10, 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

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

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

Waste Management has access to a vast above-ground mine of valuable commodities but wants to improve how it extracts them.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

Garrett extracts his arm from behind my back, leaning forward in his seat.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

To identify the four sailors, Stephen Fratpietro, study co-author from Lakehead University, extracted DNA from the archaeological remains.

From Science Daily Sep. 10, 2026

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

Working carefully, Jeremy extracted her from the bush.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

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

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

“Come on,” he says, extracting Marlena from the backseat.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen




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