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extract

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






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Earl Spencer, the brother of Diana, Princess of Wales, has claimed King Charles said "we'll forget her soon enough" days after her death, in an extract from his upcoming memoir published by the Daily Mail.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

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

Those pure black eyes seemed to pull at Hazel, as if trying to extract her soul.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

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

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

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

It inserts these minute and stiletto-sharp mouth parts into the outer cells of leaves and evergreen needles and extracts the chlorophyll.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

This year, the startup that is part of the WVU project concluded a preliminary agreement with one of these companies, REalloys, to treat rare earths extracted from acid water drainage.

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

With difficulty he extracted a notebook and a stubby pencil from a back pocket.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

The judge ordered the companies to "refrain from initiating, pursuing, carrying out or having carried out any material actions" that would involve drilling, installing infrastructure or extracting hydrocarbons, according to a ruling seen by AFP.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

Two other Republicans who had threatened Blanche’s nomination, Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, ultimately voted to confirm him after extracting concessions.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

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

Scientists uncovered that inheritance by extracting and sequencing DNA preserved in Neanderthal and Denisovan fossils.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

All humans presumably did so too, until improved technology for extracting food allowed some hunter-gatherers to settle in permanent dwellings in some resource-rich areas.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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