extract
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Paladin works with Critical Materials Recycling, a Boone, Iowa company that is commercializing a leaching process developed at Ames National Laboratory to extract nearly all the rare earths from electronic waste.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
There are a number of ways the chancellor could extract more money from the sector.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
However, it is possible to extract healthy symbionts and culture them -- and the team is now thinking about ways to re-introduce them en masse to bleached coral.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
In reality, even a monopolist wouldn’t be able to extract all consumer surplus, because of the presence of alternatives and the inability to fully know consumers’ willingness to pay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
I use the Aura arcana to extract the paint and coat the new body-shaped canvas, coloring it the same shade as the sand that lines the royal beach.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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Part of what hampered his chances of a reprieve were extracts from his diaries which were widely circulated, publicly outing him as a homosexual.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
They pioneered phytocosmetology—using plant extracts and essential oils in combination with advanced technological research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
It estimates how much energy the body extracts before food reaches the colon, how much energy microbes produce from the remaining material, and how much ultimately gets absorbed or eliminated.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
"Take a pin from your hair," Amber says, ruining her Belle-bun as she extracts her own.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The decision - which comes after years of debate and legal challenges - will pave the way for gas to be extracted from it and used in Britain's gas network within weeks.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
To find the biological machinery behind this unusual behavior, Lerner extracted DNA from the entire community of microorganisms living in the soil samples.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
He has also successfully extracted multimillion-dollar settlements from CBS and ABC after suing the networks over news content he believed treated him unfairly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
But on Monday the credits finally began to roll as California Attorney General Rob Bonta extracted a bounty in return for letting Paramount Skydance acquire the Hollywood studio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Roger Malecki says he put his entire cactus garden through his Magic Bullet blender, and extracted a gallon of water from it.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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The frontal cortex, meanwhile, is more involved in extracting broader meaning, recognizing patterns, and understanding the central message of an experience, sometimes called its "gist."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Instead, we expect negotiation will commence with a view to extracting a higher price,” Citi says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Other companies are extracting insights from large amounts of data for algorithmic-pricing strategies.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
The judge ordered the companies to "refrain from initiating, pursuing, carrying out or having carried out any material actions" that would involve drilling, installing infrastructure or extracting hydrocarbons, according to a ruling seen by AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Come on,” he says, extracting Marlena from the backseat.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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