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extrude

[ik-strood] / ɪkˈstrud /


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To print a new material from scratch, one must typically set up to 100 parameters in software that controls how the printer will extrude the material as it fabricates an object.

From Science Daily Apr. 8, 2024

Large language models such as ChatGPT extrude remarkably fluent and coherent-seeming text but have no understanding of what the text means, let alone the ability to reason.

From Scientific American Aug. 12, 2023

Seeming to extrude the words rather than speak them, Matthew Rhys expertly conveys Perry’s confusion about his own motivations.

From New York Times Mar. 20, 2023

Some things do extrude from behind the curtain that are hard to ignore.

From Washington Post May 4, 2017

She may often be seen restlessly traversing the combs, seeking in vain for empty cells, until finding none, she is compelled to extrude her eggs only to be devoured by the bees.

From Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual by L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine) Langstroth

“When a movie finds its running length and you see the shape of what it should be, it extrudes things it doesn’t need,” says Tony Kushner, who co-wrote “The Fabelmans” with director Steven Spielberg.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2023

Murata pushes on the ordinary until it extrudes into unusual shapes.

From New York Times Jun. 27, 2022

This combines a nozzle that extrudes molten polymer with one that prints light-sensitive resin, ready to be cured by ultraviolet lamps or lasers, and two that print wires and circuitry from tiny dots of metal13.

From Nature Feb. 4, 2020

It’s the rare pub that extrudes fresh pasta for its mac and cheese.

From Seattle Times Apr. 12, 2018

From the tip of the tongue the creature extrudes two small filaments of a pinkish colour which wriggle about, bearing a perfect resemblance to the small round worms of which fishes are so fond.

From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by William Beebe

When one user asked it to produce a map of the U.S. with all the states labeled, GPT-5 extruded a fantasyland, including states such as Tonnessee, Mississipo and West Wigina.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2025

These two solutions were then merged together side-by-side, and the material was extruded to make one fiber.

From Science Daily Dec. 11, 2023

The whole concoction gets extruded through a machine that pressure-cooks it into bite-sized, cereallike bits.

From Slate Oct. 30, 2023

Also banned are disposable cups and takeaway food containers made of expanded or foamed extruded polystyrene.

From BBC Oct. 29, 2023

Once the meat was soaked, it would be transported to the lower levels to be ground, canned, pickled, brined, extruded into sausage casings, or cut into chops.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

They will be sort of extruding this sort of journalism product and sort of claiming it as their own.

From New York Times Jun. 14, 2024

One of those is 3D printing, which involves extruding concrete or other materials to build up the walls of a house.

From BBC May 23, 2024

By first dissolving the peptides in water and then extruding them into a salty solution, they were able to create aligned peptide nanofibers -- like twisted strands of rope smaller than a cell.

From Science Daily May 3, 2024

A blustery snowstorm is a tight knot of dancers, dressed in winter whites, alternately engulfing and extruding passersby.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 10, 2019

It was fog—tongues of white vapor extruding between the knuckles of the fur-dark hills—but it moved like a living thing, with a curious, hunting intelligence.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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