as in lineages
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
a family of Italian extraction
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Recent Examples of extractions
Clarify who performs extractions, incisions, and placement, and how many cases the team runs per day.
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Maria Williams, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
The request demands disclosure of 911 recordings, police bodycam transcripts, cellphone extractions, original digital files, chain of custody records, and the results of DNA, fingerprint and firearm testing.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Children received everything from exams and cleanings to crowns and extractions, all on site.
—Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
These extractions are passed to a risk analysis agent, which evaluates them against internal legal policies and regulatory templates to flag problematic or missing content.
—Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Currently, Dales said about 15% of the adoptable dogs have varying medical needs, many that are very treatable, such as diarrhea, eye infections, teeth extractions and skin issues.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
After multiple rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and tumor extractions, Allen went into remission the following year, though months later her CT scans showed her cancer had returned and spread to her lungs.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Maria Williams, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
The request demands disclosure of 911 recordings, police bodycam transcripts, cellphone extractions, original digital files, chain of custody records, and the results of DNA, fingerprint and firearm testing.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Children received everything from exams and cleanings to crowns and extractions, all on site.
—Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
These extractions are passed to a risk analysis agent, which evaluates them against internal legal policies and regulatory templates to flag problematic or missing content.
—Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Currently, Dales said about 15% of the adoptable dogs have varying medical needs, many that are very treatable, such as diarrhea, eye infections, teeth extractions and skin issues.
—Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
After multiple rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and tumor extractions, Allen went into remission the following year, though months later her CT scans showed her cancer had returned and spread to her lungs.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extractions
Noun
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The various lineages of Ursuța’s work are unmistakable.—
Jerry Saltz,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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While multiple human lineages have been discovered from this time, scientists have struggled to create a clear timeline.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Sep. 2025
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This lack of representation is problematic for people of different ancestries because genetic risk factors differ across populations.—
Rachel Nuwer,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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The box covers the most popular classes and ancestries such as humans, elves, dwarves and halflings.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Those players, with their own experiences and their own pedigrees, joined the team last year and watched a team underachieve.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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When employers look past pedigrees and see workers’ singular abilities, histories, and motivations, skills gaps disappear.—
Ryan Stowers,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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People have tried ski descents from Everest in the past, but none of them have completed the run without bottled oxygen.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
25 Sep. 2025
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Grippy waterproof shoes and a good rain jacket are essential on this one for mud, streams, and steep, slippery descents.—
Madison Chapman,
Outside,
17 Sep. 2025
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The shape has also been appearing on runways in more exaggerated forms — including chunky hybrids and platform styles that push past their school-girl origins.—
Maggie Clancy,
Footwear News,
18 Oct. 2025
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The Natural History Museum’s grand setting — home to exhibits exploring the origins of life and the cosmos — provides a fitting backdrop for the awards ceremony, aimed to bring together leaders across government, private industry and academia.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
18 Oct. 2025
Noun
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With nearly one-third of Los Angeles County's 10 million residents being foreign-born, the declaration has significant social and economic implications, especially for immigrant and mixed-status families.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Oct. 2025
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If the president had not wasted time floating perverse ideas about real-estate opportunities in Gaza, thousands of Palestinian lives might have been saved, and more of the Israeli hostages would be in the bosom of their families.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
14 Oct. 2025
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But, birth rates at older ages are not rising enough to offset those declines in birth rates at younger ages even though births to women in their late 30s and early 40s are rising.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Infertility affects roughly one in six women of reproductive age, according to the World Health Organization, and IVF accounts for about 2% of all births in the United States.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Extractions.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extractions. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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