extraction
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These ranged from small extraction areas to larger, more complex sites.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
Power systems, communications relays and resource extraction should take priority over manned missions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
Very outspoken compared to other Silicon Valley bosses, Signal's president is Meredith Whittaker, who spent years working for Google and is a fierce critic of business models built on the extraction of personal data.
From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026
The company would also be pursuing mineral extraction and oil.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
Hamilton had been born on the West Indian island of Nevis, the illegitimate son of a down-on-her-luck beauty of French extraction and a hard-drinking Scottish merchant with a flair for bankruptcy.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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