extracting

verb

present participle of extract
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 Asteroid mining is also mentioned as a potential opportunity, which would entail extracting metals and other critical resources from near-Earth and main-belt asteroids. — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026 Rather than burning coal for energy or converting it into fuels, the process focuses on extracting carbon-rich molecular structures that can serve as feedstock for advanced engineering materials. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 2 Aug. 2026 The company was building enduring relationships with customers rather than extracting the highest possible price in any single year. — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026 On Saturday, authorities ended a massive days-long search-and-rescue operation at the Aeon Mall, in the town of Kashima, after extracting five people and the bodies of seven others. — Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2026 Even better, because SM Energy is extracting minerals horizontally 7,500 feet underground, Draco will minimize oil and gas surface activity in that area. — Aaron Harber, Denver Post, 28 July 2026 The researchers’ solution involves three distinct but related and integrable projects, with the first being extracting the magnesium. — New Atlas, 27 July 2026 They’ve been seen, for example, corralling schools of rays, creating waves to push penguins from ice blocks and extracting the livers of white sharks. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 23 July 2026 In 2016, experts tested the wine's quality by extracting a sample with a Coravin device, which uses a needle to pierce the cork without damaging it. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extracting
  1. pulling
  2. prying
  3. yanking
  4. plucking
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  • Philips said he’s been able to grow revenue by folding in four additional, smaller businesses, integrating their operations into his factory, and reinvesting heavily in systems rather than pulling cash out for himself.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Beyond using high-quality and fresh beans, keeping them whole until just before pulling the espresso is just as important.
    — Better Homes & Gardens, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of pulling
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  • Miller has entered the conversation for most dominant closer ever, and multiple contenders are interested in prying him away from a middling team.
    — The Athletic MLB Staff, New York Times, 27 July 2026
  • Not with these linen panels that Malek Barney recommends—the thicker fabric strikes that Goldilocks balance between privacy and natural light, letting sunlight gently filter through while still shielding your space from prying eyes.
    — Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 22 June 2026
Definition of prying
Verb
  • The episode feinted toward genuine rapprochement before yanking the rug out, leaving the Gang pelted with an industrial-grade indoor blizzard and then happily chucking rocks at passing trains, as was Mac and Charlie’s childhood tradition.
    — Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026
  • The tentacular Scylla is seen briefly but makes an impact, yanking sailors off Odysseus’s ship in a series of loud jump scares.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 16 July 2026
Definition of yanking
Verb
  • Alix Earle, and her younger sister Ashtin, have given the skinny brow trend their own proverbial thumbs up, plucking away their natural shape over the last year.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 27 July 2026
  • The fact that celebrity landed upon him, plucking him from the obscurity of his mission to represent the burgeoning discourse on the disease, says more about the world that orbited him than his actions on the island or his own political nous.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
Definition of plucking

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