extricating
- present participle of extricate.
Example Sentences
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One video shows him under the rubble, carefully extricating the body of an infant from around the body of another small child, who is alive.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
He lets the film pause and breathe, believably extricating Pansy from her pain for just a moment to give her a taste of what reprieve and lightness might look like.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025
Zwirner would not disclose the financial terms of extricating the gallery from that project.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
The complexity of extricating the technology platforms that allow equity trading and then integrating them at another bank was another factor in Credit Suisse's decision to hold off, the people said.
From Reuters ● Mar. 8, 2023
The tide drift had taken him down into the kelp, and he’d wasted four hours extricating himself so as not to rip his gill-net.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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