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

She believes mining companies have extracted too much water from an ecosystem already struggling from climate change.

From BBC • Jul. 19, 2025

As part of civil litigation against Boeing in Chicago, the families have extracted 3.8 million pages of internal documents from the company and conducted more than 200 depositions.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2024

The supernova team, led by many Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows, will soon have extracted all they can from the DES observations.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2024

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