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the line of ancestors from whom a person is descended
a family of Italian extraction
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Recent Examples of extraction
Climate & Environment Controversial Prop. 65 warning labels about toxic chemicals are effective, study says
Nov. 11, 2024
The law would effectively oversee the end of fossil fuel extraction in the Inglewood Oil Field, where drilling has occurred for a century.
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Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
These tools are designed to capture all available data from a device in a single process called a forensic acquisition or extraction.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The company restarted uranium extraction at its Christensen Ranch Mine in Wyoming in August 2024, with ramp-up expected to continue into early 2025.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2024
China's dominance of the global supply chain for these minerals, and the relative underdevelopment of other nations' extraction and refinement capabilities means several industries could be impacted by the new measures.
—Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
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Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
These tools are designed to capture all available data from a device in a single process called a forensic acquisition or extraction.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
The company restarted uranium extraction at its Christensen Ranch Mine in Wyoming in August 2024, with ramp-up expected to continue into early 2025.
—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2024
China's dominance of the global supply chain for these minerals, and the relative underdevelopment of other nations' extraction and refinement capabilities means several industries could be impacted by the new measures.
—Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extraction
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The Mother, of course, is white with good ancestry and Belle inherits brains & ability.Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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Does reading about one of the most common birds on the planet sharing ancestry with a fearsome predator like the Tyrannosaurus rex reinforce a belief that animals are just as fascinating as humans?Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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The experience includes an exploration of the world’s longest lineage of single-vintage wines dating to 1878.Paula Conway, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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As the first true dinosaurs emerged, some remained omnivorous, while early predecessors of the Allosaurus and T. rex lineage began to hunt insects and fish.Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024
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Unfortunately, our origin stories don’t tell us how to resolve any particular ethical dispute.Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
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The site was once the Angola Plantations, a slave plantation owned by Isaac Franklin and named after Angola, the country of origin for many of the enslaved people who worked there.Landon Mion, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
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For centuries, Junkanoo has been an important form of celebration and protest for people of African descent.Sasha C. Wells / Made by History, TIME, 26 Dec. 2024
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Cellphone footage circulating online appeared to show the aircraft making a steep descent before smashing into the ground in a fireball.Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Dec. 2024
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Roads and highways have carved up previously wide-open stretches of desert into parcels that are in some cases too small to allow for the breeding and genetic diversity needed to sustain their population health.Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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The wolves sourced from Oregon, which now include a breeding female and four pups, initially were located in Grand County, but killed as many as a dozen livestock, creating pressure to relocate them.John Frank, Axios, 20 Dec. 2024
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Police could also have tried to use commercial databases to identify the suspect through genetic genealogy, but that process would have taken even longer, Giacalone said.N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
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There’s a chance the suspect could be isolated using genetic genealogy, if one of his relatives entered their DNA data into a public database.Holly Yan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
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Thirteen of the 21 families participated in the exhibit and all photographs were shot by Sudhoff.Stephanie Mendez, ABC News, 1 Jan. 2025
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King is a 2020 graduate of Park High School in Racine and his family lives in the area.Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2025
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With that said, an exception should be made here given Yates' pedigree as a closer.David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
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Barring a drastic turnaround over the next few months, he's done nothing to justify anything close to a max salary, but his draft pedigree might complicate extension talks.Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Extraction.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extraction. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.
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