extract
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Astrotech would extract helium-3 from regolith by heating it up.
From BBC • Jun. 16, 2026
Connecticut last month passed a law to ban a type of transaction critics say private-equity firms use to extract money from hospitals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026
In 2022 an single-engine Cessna emergency landed on the Metrolink tracks near San Fernando and Osborne streets; police had to quickly extract the pilot as a Metrolink train barreled toward the wreckage.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026
“Companies are saying, ‘Let’s just jack up the price as high as we possibly can and extract as much from the small set of wealthy people,’” Richards said.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 13, 2026
In 1999 his team tried to extract DNA from Lagoa Santa bones.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing extract
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 12–15
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