extracting
- present participle of extract.
Example Sentences
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While its emissions are lower, drilling and extracting it causes the leakage of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas and the main component of natural gas.
From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026
“For these guys,” Banks said, the goal “is extraction,” and “what they’re extracting is not just our money, but our data.”
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Still, beneath the public warmth is a relationship increasingly shifting in China’s favor—with Xi extracting concessions from Putin across areas ranging from energy to a new regional development bank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The approach could eventually support new methods for extracting energy from quantum systems and preparing quantum states.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
All humans presumably did so too, until improved technology for extracting food allowed some hunter-gatherers to settle in permanent dwellings in some resource-rich areas.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
