extracting

present participle of extract

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of extracting The Falcon-Emirati model and related tools for speech recognition and extracting Arabic text from images and documents are relatively compact. — Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Over the past quarter century, foreign direct investment across sub-Saharan Africa has remained relatively flat—around two to three percent as a share of GDP—and most of it has gone to extracting oil, diamonds, and gold and other minerals. — Jared Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 7 Oct. 2026 OpenAI’s current Terms of Use prohibit users from using its output to develop models that compete with OpenAI, as well as automatically or programmatically extracting output from its services. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026 In July, an orchestrated multi-agent framework ran a four-day intrusion against Taiwan’s justice ministry, cracking employee accounts, extracting personnel records, SSO client secrets and database credentials. — Taylor Morgan, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Refiners turn oil discarded by restaurants and other waste fats into transportation fuel, extracting additional value from crops already grown and oils that have already served their original purpose. — Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026 Two oil companies, Britain’s Rockhopper Exploration and Israel’s Navitas Petroleum, are due to begin a joint project extracting from the oilfield within two years. — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 30 Sep. 2026 IvyCraft interprets document layouts, page structures, and images instead of extracting text alone. — New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026 Last year, Works petitioned a county court in Tennessee to exhume the body of Randolph’s son from a Nashville cemetery, with the goal of extracting DNA that Works believes might clear Thomas Jefferson’s name. — Andrew Lawler, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extracting
Verb
  • In addition to pulling TikTok ads in the US, the policy will also restrict them in Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Cyclovia is about people who have turned a simple machine into a way of surviving, celebrating and dreaming, and John’s whole body of work is about pulling Latin stories out of the margins and into the centre of the culture.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Or two birds face-to-face in close proximity, covering themselves with their wings as if to share a secret kiss away from prying eyes, could evoke a giggle.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Davidson was thrust into a reality-TV world of prying paparazzi and untold media scrutiny.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Zabransky was the first person to reach Rabb in the end zone, yanking him into the air for a bear hug.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 3 Oct. 2026
  • There’s also an ending that revels in a form of catharsis — for the audience watching the play, not the movie — before yanking that, too, away.
    — David Mack, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • LLMs are great at finding blowups that exist—at searching the infinite landscape of fluid scenarios and plucking out the precise situation that breaks the equations.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Fortunately, many dahlia insect problems in September can be solved by walking through the garden in the morning and plucking the offending insects off the plants by hand, then dropping them into a container of soapy water.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2026

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“Extracting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extracting. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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