extraction
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Synonyms & Antonyms for extraction
Synonyms
ancestry, birth, blood, bloodline, breeding, descent, family tree, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stock, strain
Antonyms
issue, posterity, progeny, seed
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Keep those oil-extraction subsidies and coal bailouts flowing. — Catherine Rampell, The Denver Post, "Rampell: What are Republicans afraid of?," 6 Aug. 2019 In Canada, the designation closes off water from mining, oil, and gas extraction, dumping, and fishing with a method called trawling. — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, "Pristine Arctic reserves will benefit wildlife and Inuit communities," 1 Aug. 2019 The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported that Trilogy Metals plans to develop an ore-extraction site called Artic, where about 43 million tons of reserves were discovered. — USA TODAY, "Moon trees, moon film, monk honored: News from around our 50 states," 23 July 2019 President Trump has opened up public lands for extraction, lifted regulations on air pollution, and slashed the size of park lands. — Kayla Bartsch, National Review, "Republicans Take an Important Step Back into the Environmental Debate," 15 July 2019 His treatment included having his jaw re-set, dental extraction, and debridement (removal) of weak tissue. — Maggie O'neill, Health.com, "This Is What Happens When an E-Cigarette Explodes in Your Mouth," 19 June 2019 After all, use of coal in the U.S. fell 36 percent from 2007 to 2017, while jobs in the solar industry grew 12 times as fast as overall job creation in 2015—surpassing those in oil and gas extraction, or coal mining. — Sarah Hurtes, Harper's BAZAAR, "Women Who Risk Everything to Defend the Environment," 30 Nov. 2018 Rescuers are scrambling to lower water levels with pumps and prepare the group for a perilous, hours-long extraction that would include diving through pitch-black water with scuba gear. — Fortune, "Elon Musk’s Team Due in Thailand to Help Rescue Soccer Team Trapped in Flooded Cave," 7 July 2018 Alternative rescue scenarios have ramped up as forecasts for rain make the extraction-by-diving plan increasingly precarious. — Chris Irvine, Fox News, "Former navy SEAL assisting in cave rescue of Thai soccer team dead from lack of oxygen, authorities say," 7 July 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'extraction.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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