extrication
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"A complex extrication with our technical rescue team" was needed, "including a search and rescue of the pilot and co-pilot that were trapped in this aircraft."
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said: "The extrication was especially challenging with fuel lines running throughout the aircraft's chassis and aviation fuel stored in its wings."
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
The extrication of the federal workforce from routine economic activity means comparisons, even after data reporting returns, will be askew until normalization sets back in.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2025
Had officials issued timely alerts, Shurney said she would have been packing up and arranging for her mother’s extrication.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2025
When once involved in the whirl of fashion, extrication is difficult and painful—the descent is wonderfully easy—sed revocare gradum!
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
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"Introduction to Homeland Security," Vocabulary from Chapter 9
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