as in pulling
to draw out by force or with effort
extracted a splinter from my hand
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Recent Examples of extracting
While heavy crude oil is what is predominantly being drilled for today, its viscous consistency and high levels of metals and sulfur mean extracting and refining this product is significantly more costly than its light crude counterpart.
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
To achieve the effect of Alma extracting the worm from Elvira’s mouth, Foldberg and his team created several silicone worm pieces and then fed them through a contraption attached to the side of Myren’s face.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 23 Dec. 2025
This olive pit litter uses upcycled olive pits—an existing byproduct—rather than extracting new material from the earth, the way clay litters do.
—Svetlana Khachiyan, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
However, the presence of data centers in space could alleviate the strain of extracting tremendous amounts of energy on Earth for the training of AI models.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 12 Dec. 2025
There was this notion that maybe humans are just really good at representing and extracting hierarchical structures, which of course are a key signature of language, but are also present in other domains like math and music and aspects of social cognition.
—Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
Law enforcement searched several devices, including the laptop seized from his home, extracting data between December 25, 2022, through January 8, 2023, per a search warrant.
—Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
The motion of the bead against the rod causes the atoms/molecules/electrons to rub against one another, producing heat through friction, and thereby providing a method for extracting energy from the gravitational waves.
—Big Think, 7 Nov. 2025
Juicing, or extracting juice from fresh fruits and vegetables, can be a convenient way to increase your intake of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
—Lindsey Desoto, Verywell Health, 4 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extracting
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As his career skyrocketed, Chalamet spent years quietly training — aided by an expert on the sport, Diego Schaaf — by pulling a table-tennis setup along to productions ranging from Dune to Wonka.—
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Notre Dame didn’t mess around in pulling all that material together, looking like a program with a plan before the portal opened.—
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Surveillance video shows two suspects arriving in a car, getting out with crowbars, and prying open the restaurant's front door.—
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Water that seeps into small cracks or gaps around homes can freeze and expand, slowly prying open concrete, damaging driveways, sidewalks, and steps, and even compromising foundations.—
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Therefore Primate and its promising central character turns more into a typical slasher flick, repeatedly knocking off the swimsuit-wearing teens one by one, his specialty being yanking out jaws and other bloody grossouts.—
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Keep the movement coming from your ribs, rotating, not by yanking your neck.—
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Regime change, as it has been practiced and discussed in international politics, refers to something far more ambitious and far more consequential than plucking out a single leader.—
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Regime change, as it has been practiced and discussed in international politics, refers to something far more ambitious and far more consequential than plucking out a single leader.—
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“Extracting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extracting. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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