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
In any context, everyone is justified in resisting or repelling any invasion of their person or property, extracting restitution or exacting punishment in response to an invasion, or helping someone else do the same.
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Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026
Afghanistan joined Iran as countries singled out by the United States for detaining Americans in hopes of extracting policy concessions.
—Arkansas Online, 25 Mar. 2026
He became known for poaching clients, extracting heroic sums for their work, and burnishing their reputations abroad.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Afghanistan joined Iran as countries singled out by the United States for detaining Americans in hopes of extracting policy concessions.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Beyond conversion, AcePDF offers editing tools such as merging and splitting PDFs, compressing large files, extracting images, adding annotations, and creating interactive forms.
—Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
To meet that additional need, more mines will need to be opened, and extra production developed – including extracting residual copper from old mine debris that was previously viewed as having too little copper to be worth processing.
—Adam Charles Simon, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2026
Enter Louis Theroux, a British documentarian known for embedding himself in volatile subcultures and extracting sincere insights.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026
Led in part by Yan Liu, PhD, an assistant professor at UMTC and the experiment’s Analysis Working Group Chair, the team designed new reconstruction algorithms capable of rapidly extracting rare signals from background noise.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Mar. 2026
Connor Okeeffe, Oc Register, 29 Mar. 2026
Afghanistan joined Iran as countries singled out by the United States for detaining Americans in hopes of extracting policy concessions.
—Arkansas Online, 25 Mar. 2026
He became known for poaching clients, extracting heroic sums for their work, and burnishing their reputations abroad.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Afghanistan joined Iran as countries singled out by the United States for detaining Americans in hopes of extracting policy concessions.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Beyond conversion, AcePDF offers editing tools such as merging and splitting PDFs, compressing large files, extracting images, adding annotations, and creating interactive forms.
—Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
To meet that additional need, more mines will need to be opened, and extra production developed – including extracting residual copper from old mine debris that was previously viewed as having too little copper to be worth processing.
—Adam Charles Simon, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2026
Enter Louis Theroux, a British documentarian known for embedding himself in volatile subcultures and extracting sincere insights.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026
Led in part by Yan Liu, PhD, an assistant professor at UMTC and the experiment’s Analysis Working Group Chair, the team designed new reconstruction algorithms capable of rapidly extracting rare signals from background noise.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extracting
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Then, as the pandemic waned, in 2023 and early ’24, came two jolts to the system – federal pandemic-era assistance ended, pulling food and food-related funding away from charities, and the number of people seeking food continued to grow.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
29 Mar. 2026
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The trio rebuild the tower and Guerrero goes up again, pulling the line for about four minutes more before the group takes down the tower, wheels the cart away from the window and walks away.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Entering his third season at the helm, Counsell is seemingly more comfortable with the uniqueness of managing the Cubs, from the day games to the prying media to the quirkiness of the ballpark, which can favor hitters one day and pitchers the next.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
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There are those who close their social media accounts, those who move to a ranch away from prying eyes, and those who decide to address the issue.—
Alessandra De Tommasi,
Vanity Fair,
23 Mar. 2026
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In other words, eliminating them from the animal kingdom would be like yanking an entire tier of Jenga blocks out of the middle of the tower.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
15 Mar. 2026
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The body-camera footage shows Exum yanking the wheel left, toward the Rogue, then right.—
Ruby Cramer,
New Yorker,
12 Mar. 2026
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When not plucking away at a keyboard, Madison teaches yoga and mountain bikes with her two Australian shepherds, Cholla and Poppy, through Missoula's Rattlesnake Wilderness.—
Madison Dapcevich,
Outside,
28 Mar. 2026
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And don’t forget the era of over-plucking—ahem, from the currently trending ‘90s—which resulted in super-thin eyebrows that never really fully grew back.—
Ana Morales,
Vogue,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Extracting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extracting. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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