as in to eject
to drive or force out
the sort of person who is determined to extrude every last gob of toothpaste from the tube
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Recent Examples of extrude
Next, with the help of artificial colorings, flavorings, texturizers and glue-like emulsifiers, ingredients are mixed, heated, pounded, shaped or extruded into any food a manufacturer can dream up.
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Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 14 Dec. 2025
But watching something rigid extrude itself from a flexible reel will always seem a little magical.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Dec. 2025
When it’s used as a feeding material, engineers usually set the 3D printer to around 200 Celsius (390 Fahrenheit) to make sure the material is going to be melted as it’s extruded from a little nozzle, but can then harden back into form.
—Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
Earlier this year, the company successfully co-extruded a coupon sample of the fuel at the Idaho National Laboratory.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Nov. 2025
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Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 14 Dec. 2025
But watching something rigid extrude itself from a flexible reel will always seem a little magical.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Dec. 2025
When it’s used as a feeding material, engineers usually set the 3D printer to around 200 Celsius (390 Fahrenheit) to make sure the material is going to be melted as it’s extruded from a little nozzle, but can then harden back into form.
—Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
Earlier this year, the company successfully co-extruded a coupon sample of the fuel at the Idaho National Laboratory.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extrude
Verb
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She was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Tremblay, her daughter said, was ejected from the plane upon impact and was thrown more than 300 feet — nearly the length of a football field — before slamming and skidding onto the tarmac.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Kyle is just outing herself as a gossip and is distorting what everyone has to say to try to one-up Dorit in her own life.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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The public quickly turned on The Sun for effectively outing Edwards.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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Her father, Bernard, had run away from his own parents at fourteen to chase his version of the American Dream.—
Zayd Ayers Dohrn,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
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But there isn’t one collective goal for this team to chase over the next 17 days.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Authorities had since dismissed her lawyers’ requests to send her to a hospital for urgent treatment.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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There is a long history of women's pain being dismissed by doctors, incorrectly categorized as period pain or rooted in psychological distress.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Rename the file, banish it to some obscure folder.—
JD Barker,
Rolling Stone,
25 Mar. 2026
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Angels could be seen all around — some on the walls depicting Moses' life and death, and another above, on Michelangelo’s fresco, banishing Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
22 Mar. 2026
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Moscow was expelled from the group, and the G8 became the G7.—
Leonie Kidd,
CNBC,
29 Mar. 2026
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House Republicans are pushing to expel Cherfilus-McCormick from Congress because of the allegations, and the findings by the Ethics Committee could bolster that effort.—
Caitlin Yilek,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Extrude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extrude. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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