extricated

verb

past tense of extricate
as in freed
to set free from entanglement or difficulty you've woven such a web of lies that it's hard to see how you can extricate yourself now

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Recent Examples of extricated The driver of the semi-truck was trapped inside the cab and was extricated by crews before being transported to the hospital for evaluation. — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2026 Members of the fire department and Plymouth County Dive Team eventually extricated Carrara out of the two-seat plane. — Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 16 July 2026 The sheriff's office says that deputies and workers extricated the man and attempted life-saving measures, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 2 July 2026 One of them had to be extricated from the vehicle, according to police. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 June 2026 Kupec was extricated from the vehicle after firefighters arrived. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extricated
  1. freed
  2. liberated
  3. saved
  4. disentangled
  5. rescued
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  • An additional 10% could be freed up if the stock closes at least 30% above the IPO price for five of the ten trading days heading into the report.
    — Lora Kolodny,Samantha Subin, CNBC, 21 July 2026
  • After firefighters freed her, paramedics took her to Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, where she was pronounced dead.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 July 2026
Definition of freed
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  • He was born in western Ukraine and attended a military school in Kharkiv – the city liberated by Ukrainian forces in 2022 after a brutal Russian occupation early in the war.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
  • This story was discovered in a trove of 263 songs collected by Moisei Beregovsky, a Soviet Jewish ethnomusicologist who recorded Yiddish music from Jews in Ukraine just after they were liberated from the Romanian occupation in 1944.
    — Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2026
Definition of liberated
Verb
  • Despite arriving in February 1992 with no coaching experience whatsoever, Keegan saved Newcastle from the precipice.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • Firefighters battled the blaze inside the village and saved all the local homes, even if two barns went up in flames, Moreno said, adding that the firefighters should receive as much admiration as the soccer players who won the World Cup on Sunday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026
Definition of saved
Verb
  • The unique shape of these events meant that signals from wakes could be more easily disentangled from surrounding noise.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 July 2026
  • On Sunday, June 14, the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) disentangled a relatively small humpback whale after recreational boaters spotted the animal anchored in fishing gear in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary late that morning, CCS said in a press release.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 16 June 2026
Definition of disentangled
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  • In Biden’s case, South Carolinians rescued his seemingly moribund campaign.
    — W. James Antle III, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2026
  • Multiple people have been rescued after a seaplane carrying 11 people made an emergency landing Thursday off the coast of Washington, prompting a multi-agency search and rescue operation.
    — Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 24 July 2026
Definition of rescued

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