extract
Example Sentences
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Yet even as industrial police and officers in plain clothes arrived at the site, they were unable to extract him from the mob, he added.
From BBC
Its sour, heavy crude is difficult to extract and refine, while its high sulphur content makes it corrosive to pipelines.
From BBC
Another office in the complex studies emerging online threats, while a digital forensics lab extracts and analyses data from electronic devices like laptops, phones and even cars.
From Barron's
Over time, these middlemen have built vertically integrated structures designed to extract value from America’s uniquely convoluted drug-distribution model.
The county alleges that American Industrial Partners saw an opportunity in merging independent firetruck companies that competed against one another “into an industry giant with the power to extract high prices.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.