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extraction
1. n. An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
2. n. A person's origin or ancestry.
3. n. Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
4. n. (military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
5. n. (dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.

Example Sentences

Another option is called clear lens extraction.  However, years of exposure to high levels of radiation have distorted fittings, making it impossible to guarantee the safe loading and extraction of fuel rods.  Interestingly, a large number of the most successful operators in this sphere have been of conspicuously foreign extraction, and their very exoticness has aided their efforts.  The destructive use is the industrial extraction of peat from lowland peat bogs simply to fill plastic bags to sell to gardeners and to pack plant pots.

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