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 Using specialist skills, the team carefully extracted Purdy and reunited the kitten with her owner. — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026 With the clock racing down to find Joe before she's extracted out of the country to her death, the team launches an assault against an airport hangar. — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026 The technician secured the victim in a rescue harness, and the pair were extracted to awaiting rescue personnel at the staging area. — Tim Fang, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026 Ore must first be extracted and then processed to concentrate the tungsten-bearing minerals. — Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 Polyester, by contrast, is made with carbon extracted from geological reserves. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026 While some nations use krill meal as an additional food source for their people, human use of krill products is primarily through dietary supplements containing oils that are extracted from krill. — Kim S. Bernard, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026 Finger-spinner Ali Usman extracted significant turn from an unusually dry Headingley pitch, claiming five wickets late on the second day, including those of Cox, Lawrence and Brook. — Ben Jones, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026 The water could then be extracted by heating the soil through various methods. — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026

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The Twins pulled even in the second inning on Lee’s RBI single.

— LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2026
However, entering June, crude prices pulled back significantly, while retail gasoline prices declined at a markedly slower pace.

— , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of pulled

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The latest was on Sunday, when interior doors of the restaurant were forced and pried open and $1,300 was stolen, all while a cleaning crew was inside.

— Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 21 Aug. 2026
Across six Premier League seasons in the 1990s, Newcastle pried 12 different players from poorer sides, more than anyone else in that period.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026

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The officer is also seen putting a woman in a patrol car, the same woman who is shown on the ground having her hair yanked by an officer.

— Briauna Brown, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026
In Berkeley, where California clay culture yanked ceramics out of the category of polite craft and into something huge, physical, ugly, and beautiful, Heilmann learned to weld.

— Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of yanked

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Woodard went undrafted out of UNLV in 2025, and the Dolphins plucked him off the Texans’ practice squad in mid-December.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
If the Panthers didn’t want him, in other words, he’d probably be plucked off the waiver wire by someone else.

— Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 24 Aug. 2026

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