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extract

noun as in something condensed from whole

verb as in select a quotation

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Humanitarian organizations had already pulled out, and French troops rushed in to extract the 15 foreigners left in the city.

The scientists were able to extract sufficient DNA from the roots, and they did indeed find the virus fossils.

The procedure they undergo to extract eggs is intense and invasive and there are no sexual kicks involved.

Sophia pays the $20,000 or more necessary to extract and freeze a large number of her eggs.

So the advantages of being able to extract and store the most energy out of the minimum of calories far outweighed any risks.

It may be applied directly to a suspected fluid, or, better, to the ethereal extract.

The following extract from the "Australasian" entitled, "Tobacco Smoking" refers to many literary smokers.

As to the concluding line of the extract, I must leave it to some better Irish scholar than I can boast myself.

This Extract will make a convenient statistic reference for matters concerning Liberia.

See the whole extract from Boccaccio, given and translated in the Introduction; see p. 68, above.

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On this page you'll find 217 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to extract, such as: excerpt, juice, quotation, abstract, citation, and clipping.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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