extractor
noun
a person or thing that extracts.
extractors
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pluralof extractor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He met medics on the front line and from his conversations the magnetic extractors were created.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2025
Then there are what I would call "the hyper extractors."
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2024
After witnessing the destruction wrought by human extractors ravaging the film’s fictional ecotopian planet Pandora, our disgusted protagonist abandons human society entirely, shedding his human body and becoming one of the blue-skinned, bioluminescent Navi.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2022
Toothpicks, cuticle pushers, tweezers and metal blemish extractors are the common tools that are being used to separate the shell and fragile membrane.
From Fox News ● Jan. 8, 2022
To anyone who has seen a molecular biology lab on the television news, the racks of refrigerating tanks, whirling DNA extractors, and gene-sequencing machines in Pena's lab would look familiar.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
