as in ancestry
the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
a family of Italian extraction
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Recent Examples of extraction
Vivienne Walt for Fortune The African countries aren’t the only ones who suffer from this relentless extraction: The diamond market is hurting too.
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
From a chemical perspective, the extraction, synthesis, or compounding of those medications is not terribly technically difficult.
—Jorge Just, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
These projects will work to retrofit and build commercial-scale American facilities whose respective production spans across different stages of the battery manufacturing process including recycling and extraction.
—Rhett Buttle, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
For safety purposes, the county restricted commercial and residential development above the roughly 9,000-acre injection zone, which is currently agricultural fields and fossil fuel extraction.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
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Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
From a chemical perspective, the extraction, synthesis, or compounding of those medications is not terribly technically difficult.
—Jorge Just, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
These projects will work to retrofit and build commercial-scale American facilities whose respective production spans across different stages of the battery manufacturing process including recycling and extraction.
—Rhett Buttle, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
For safety purposes, the county restricted commercial and residential development above the roughly 9,000-acre injection zone, which is currently agricultural fields and fossil fuel extraction.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extraction
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Owner Dave Daley will also give a talk on the local Métis culture; people who share both European and Indigenous ancestry.Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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This dual ancestry has spurred a unique pain for Bublikov and others of similar mixed origin as the conflict mounts overseas at an alarming pace, risking international expansion.Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 24 Nov. 2024
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Organizations need systems that can identify not just where AI tools are being used but how they're being used—including model lineage, training data sources and inference patterns.Rajat Bhargava, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Nearly $1 billion in donations have poured in, much coming from corporations such as Apple and the Total energy group, and prominent French lineages, including the Bettencourt Meyers family of L’Oréal, the Pinaults of Kering, and the Arnaults of LVMH.Dana Thomas, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024
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Some big ancient names have all described different origin stories to the Greek city, from Herodotus, Thucydides and Aristotle, to Strabo in his Geographica.John Oseid, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
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Check out the trailer for season six here: As the characters are introduced to audiences in advance of a possible prequel series about their origin story, the show will take viewers back to the 1970s when Virgin River looked a little different, but was still a very magical place.Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2024
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The Cassini-Huygens mission provided humanity’s first glimpse of Titan’s surface in 2005, capturing stunning imagery during its 2.5-hour descent through Titan’s clouds, revealing ancient shorelines and rivers of methane before landing among rounded blocks of ice.Jamie Carter, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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Gabbard is of Samoan descent and Ramaswamy is Indian American.Matt Brown, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024
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For a bigger excursion, consider a detour to Sable Island National Park Reserve, an island with towering sand dunes, the world’s largest breeding colony of gray seals, and wild horses.Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
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The Bene Gesserit are, uh, geneticists These space witches are running a gigantic, generations-long breeding program to guide all the great houses and eventually put the perfect person, or Kwisatz Haderach, on the Imperium throne and under their control.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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After exhausting almost all leads, the pair turned to forensic genealogy, a practice that finds potential relatives through DNA matches to identify a suspect, according to the Justice Department.Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2024
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Investigators use genetic genealogy to solve cold cases by using suspect DNA collected from a crime scene, analyzing it, and converting it into a raw data file.Alaa Elassar, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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The fight for a living wage, affordable health care and time for our families continues.Jamie L. LaReau, Detroit Free Press, 20 Nov. 2024
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The centenaries of Indian cinema icons Raj Kapoor, Tapan Sinha, Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Mohammed Rafi were marked with their families in attendance.Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
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While appetites have eased across the industry as most players cut back on spending, the bet Condé Nast is making is that the company’s pedigree will still enable it to cut a desirable figure in a crowded marketplace.Dade Hayes, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024
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Teacup October 10, Peacock Even after two episodes premiered at Fantastic Fest, little is known about this promising new Peacock offering, but the pedigree is undeniably impressive.Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Extraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extraction. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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