EXTRACTED Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

extracted

verb

past tense of extract

as in pulled

to draw out by force or with effort extracted a splinter from my hand

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Recent Examples of extracted Raw inputs are extracted from the periphery, refined and assembled in the metropole, and sold back at a markup. — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026 In that moment, walking through room after room of marble and silk and silver, all of it extracted from illiterate workers in the fields and fishing boats on the horizon, the reasons for the Protestant Reformation became fully clear to me. — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026 The authors then extracted the bell’s natural vibrational frequencies from that data, along with the corresponding mode shapes and loss factors. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026 Their opportunity came during the cross-examination of Elizabeth Riddell, an FBI case manager who had extracted messages and other data from the cellphones of defendants in the case. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2026 Both the driver and semi were taken to the Newton-Azrak Station in Murrieta, where hazardous response specialists extracted the liquid contents from the tank, which tested positive for meth, the release said. — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 Maybe a lead could be extracted, a connection to a larger EBT theft ring. — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2026 The Bátan River used to flow through Santa María Acuexcomac but had dried up because of decades of water being extracted and redirected to the expanding state capital, Puebla de Zaragoza. — Valeria Luongo, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2026 Fox News Digital extracted the names from the logos and built a database of the coalition. — Asra Q. Nomani, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026

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Michael Whatley‘s campaign against Democrat Roy Cooper on Tuesday evening, even as Republican PACs have quietly pulled funding from the race.

— Mabinty Quarshie, The Washington Examiner, 21 Oct. 2026
Wilson is part of the reason three mothers pulled their children this year from a San Diego-area Christian school, which pursued an affiliation with ACCS.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Oct. 2026

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