How to Use extraction in a Sentence
extraction
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The plan was to…make an extraction game.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
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Heather had her egg extractions done.
—Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
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That’s like half of what an extraction shooter is.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
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The jubilee promised an end to extraction.
—John E. Jackson Sr, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
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The thing about systemic trauma is that it is built on the extraction of joy.
—Quartz, 22 Feb. 2023
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Still, the group had no way to stop extraction that was already going on.
—Allison Keeley, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2022
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The couple knew that some oil and gas extraction took place nearby.
—Nick Bowlin, The Frontier, 16 Feb. 2026
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Coffee can turn out flat, sour, or weak without the right extraction.
—Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026
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The only way to keep them, though, is to call a chopper and hook them up for extraction.
—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026
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The extraction of 10 petabytes of data took around six months.
—Isaac Yee, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
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The beans ground with water had a longer extraction time and a stronger brew, even if they were made with the same beans.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 7 Dec. 2023
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By the second, Pugh will have to use the skills she's learned to get them to their extraction point.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 16 Aug. 2022
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This is all despite the fact that Marathon is a good extraction shooter.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
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That’s why pretty much every derm out there will beg you to keep your hands (and extraction tools) off your face.
—Jenna Ryu, SELF, 18 Oct. 2024
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For many of us, this will be how we are most exposed to the damage caused by the extraction machine.
—Callum Cant, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
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The groups raced against the clock to find their extraction point before being captured.
—Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 6 Feb. 2025
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The rescue group conducts civilian extractions in many parts of the world.
—Julian Zamora, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
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As fans should know, the state’s pillage people have other means of extraction.
—K. Lloyd Billingsley, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
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There's a second button for lungo extraction, and that's about it.
—Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2022
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Many will close or sell to private equity, which can lead to job losses and wealth extraction.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2025
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Most people never think twice about the tooth that comes out during a wisdom tooth extraction.
—Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 6 July 2026
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That is the effective extraction limit of the pumps, many of which now lie abandoned.
—Fred Pearce, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2024
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If oil extraction is green, the honest answer to what is not green becomes very little.
—Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
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Bill Cassidy put the sharpest point on the cost of a quick turn away from fossil-fuel extraction.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 24 Feb. 2021
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The threat is enough to set in motion the extraction scheme that Daisy’s been demanding.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 2026
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Even 100 years of colonial extraction could not make this sea barren.
—Bathsheba Demuth, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2021
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Health risks are compounded by the widespread use of mercury in gold extraction.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2026
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My ila facial was pure joy—no painful extraction or aggravating scrubs here.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026
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Where the coal is from determines how straightforward rare earth extraction would be, the study found.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
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The extraction of gold results in operating costs for the gold mine.
—Philipp Sandner, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
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