extracting

verb

present participle of extract
as in pulling
to draw out by force or with effort extracted a splinter from my hand

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Recent Examples of extracting Refiners turn oil discarded by restaurants and other waste fats into transportation fuel, extracting additional value from crops already grown and oils that have already served their original purpose. — Edward D. Melillo, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026 Two oil companies, Britain’s Rockhopper Exploration and Israel’s Navitas Petroleum, are due to begin a joint project extracting from the oilfield within two years. — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 30 Sep. 2026 Heat is transferred from surrounding rock into the system rather than extracting hot groundwater from underground formations. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026 IvyCraft interprets document layouts, page structures, and images instead of extracting text alone. — New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026 The model can then be reserved for the work that actually requires interpretation, such as reading an adjuster’s unstructured notes and extracting details that predefined rules cannot easily anticipate. — Giles Whiting, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026 The exotic premise is developed with relentless seriousness, even severity, extracting deep pathos from the characters’ eerie reckonings. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026 Last year, Works petitioned a county court in Tennessee to exhume the body of Randolph’s son from a Nashville cemetery, with the goal of extracting DNA that Works believes might clear Thomas Jefferson’s name. — Andrew Lawler, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026 True economic success in 2026 isn’t about extracting the last dollar from a negative-margin middle class. — Katica Roy, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extracting
  1. pulling
  2. prying
  3. yanking
  4. plucking
Verb
  • The Senate Leadership Fund’s pulling money from North Carolina is the latest signal the Republican Party is giving up hope of holding that Senate seat.
    — Natalie Allison, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Timing & Outlook XLU has given back all its Q1 outperformance, pulling back sharply as rising interest rates weighed heavily on rate-sensitive sectors.
    — Michael Khouw, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of pulling
Verb
  • Or two birds face-to-face in close proximity, covering themselves with their wings as if to share a secret kiss away from prying eyes, could evoke a giggle.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Davidson was thrust into a reality-TV world of prying paparazzi and untold media scrutiny.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of prying
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  • Zabransky was the first person to reach Rabb in the end zone, yanking him into the air for a bear hug.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 3 Oct. 2026
  • There’s also an ending that revels in a form of catharsis — for the audience watching the play, not the movie — before yanking that, too, away.
    — David Mack, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of yanking
Verb
  • LLMs are great at finding blowups that exist—at searching the infinite landscape of fluid scenarios and plucking out the precise situation that breaks the equations.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Fortunately, many dahlia insect problems in September can be solved by walking through the garden in the morning and plucking the offending insects off the plants by hand, then dropping them into a container of soapy water.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of plucking

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“Extracting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extracting. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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