extract
Example Sentences
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China is gaining political leverage in the region by spending money on infrastructure projects and extracting critical minerals, energy and other natural resources.
Inside those roots live microbes that extract nutrients, which then nourish the worms.
From Science Daily
But he wonders if the islands would have the power to enforce it, especially when foreign interests want to extract minerals year-round.
Currently, most solar waste is processed with basic methods that recover only low-value materials like glass and aluminium, while precious metals are lost, damaged or extracted in tiny amounts.
From BBC
Producers in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico extract roughly half of the U.S.’s crude.
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