extract
verb (used with object)
to get, pull, or draw out, usually with special effort, skill, or force.
have extracted
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present perfectof extract.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Initially largely targeting Chinese speakers -- from whom they have extracted billions, prompting rising public anger -- the scammers have expanded their operations into multiple languages to steal vast sums from victims around the world.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
In a new study published in PNAS, researchers have extracted the first ancient DNA from Caribbean parrots, which they compared with genetic sequences from modern birds.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2023
The years have extracted vitality from the large old field, but not the fight.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
When it does — and we have evidence, a whole radio of examples — we pretend the document is the hallucination and grasp the myth a little tighter until we have extracted King from himself.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2023
Not content merely to have extracted from Nature the laws of planetary motion, Kepler endeavored to find some still more fundamental underlying cause, some influence of the Sun on the kinematics of worlds.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
