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






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There are a number of ways the chancellor could extract more money from the sector.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Sold as powder, extract, paste, or frozen puree, ube is easily mixed into coffee, pastries, ice cream, spreads and even make-up.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Their goal was to carefully schedule when each instrument could operate and extract as much science and calibration time as possible from the spacecraft's limited resources.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

"I was driving very tense most of the time, I wasn't able to extract the potential out of me," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Lina gathered up the scraps of paper from the floor and gently pried open Poppy’s fists and mouth to extract the crumpled wads.

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

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

The male police officer in the transcript extracts below is the same officer heard in the video saying, "Don't think you have mate," before restraining him.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

He reaches beneath the counter and extracts the soft-cloth bundle.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

Alumina is a substance extracted from bauxite ore that is mainly used as the raw material to smelt aluminum metal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Parisi traveled to Oklahoma to obtain the Ames rock core from the Oklahoma Geological Survey, extracted zircon crystals from the material, and helped determine their ages.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

"We want an industry run in the interests of people and the environment, with its income reinvested in the system rather than extracted from it."

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Sea salt, meanwhile, refers to salt extracted from ocean water or lakes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

It would be an insult to her memory not to use the information I extracted from her, Wormtail.”

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Other companies are extracting insights from large amounts of data for algorithmic-pricing strategies.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

"Just by extracting a DNA profile is not enough to identify someone," Thapa said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Every time he felt he had made progress, Antonelli's apparently effortless way of extracting that little bit more from the car chastened him.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

In South Africa, informal miners known locally as zama zamas pry open closed shafts to try their luck extracting what remains of the country’s gold reserves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen


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